Research Professor Genomic Medicine and Consultant in Clinical Genetics. Associate Dean Research

Southampton, England
Joined July 2016
Uplift of genetic diagnosis of rare respiratory disease using airway epithelium transcriptome analysis | Human Molecular Genetics- well done Jelmer Legebeke. academic.oup.com/hmg/advance…
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Look beyond exons! Non-coding variants in introns, UTRs, promoters & enhancers in trans with pathogenic coding variants bring answers in undiagnosed recessive developmental disorders bit.ly/3XWxxyf @nickywhiffin @ProfDBaralle @hilsomartin @DrJennyLord
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Need for transcriptome analysis in health service
1/3 of disease-causing variants are estimated to alter gene splicing🧬 👉Important effort to sum published data of experimental splicing validation 👉50,000 variants in 8,000 genes 📊Database: SpliceVarDB compbio.ccia.org.au/spliceva… 📰Paper: cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002… @AJHGNews
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Much of the impact of alternative splicing is mediated by nonsense-mediated decay-induced changes in gene expression rather than diversification of the proteome @NatureGenet @yang_i_li nature.com/articles/s41588-0…
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Great new study from @ProfDBaralle and team @UoS_Medicine @ICGEB demonstrating successful correction of five different types of aberrant #RNA #splicing. suggesting a fast, efficient, and feasible approach for developing personalized therapeutic interventions for genetic disorders
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“action is needed to reverse the decline in clinical academics by working with universities, medical schools, and NHS trusts to create more flexible career pathways, recruit & retain a diverse research workforce representative of the populations it serves” thelancet.com/journals/lance…
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Microsoft says meeting time has TRIPLED since 2020: typical workers are spending 57% of their time communicating [meetings, calls] with others: 'Today, knowledge work is, quantitatively speaking, less about creating new things than it is about talking about those things.’
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Well done @AllanBayat thank you for including me #GRIA1
Our latest work on #GRIA1; a cohort w. the recurrent variant p.(Ala636Thr). This position across all GRIA genes leads to gain of function of AMPAR currents ‼️ We also report challenges in social skills, autonomy, living & work situation👇 #genetics #GRIA onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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We're thrilled to announce the launch of our City Centre Campus, Sir James Matthews 🎉 We can already feel the buzz of our vibrant campus located right in the heart of the city. Thanks to everyone who attended the launch event yesterday. #WeAreUoS #SouthamptonCityCentre
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🧬Interested in a career in Clinical Genetics? 🧬 🧬@clingensoc are hosting a free careers event on Mon 30th Sept🧬 🧬Strongly recommend this if you're a doctor or med student interested in becoming a Clinical Geneticist 🧬
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We’re proud to have been ranked 80th in the world placing us in the top 6% of universities in this year’s QS @worlduniranking 🎉 Well done to all our remarkable colleagues and incredible students for helping to make our University such an amazing place. #QSWUR #WeAreUoS
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Well done @Carolinaj215 !
Brilliant talk from one of our talented postdocs, @Carolinaj215 , at @eshg Berlin meeting. Carolina’s talk outlined a regional study showing improved diagnostic yields for rare disease patients using RNA-Seq. @ProfDBaralle In addition, Carolina is a past PhD student in my lab.
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The impact of inversions across 33,924 families with rare disease from a national genome sequencing project - great job ⁦@alistairp2011⁩ sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Fantastic work Dr Villa Vasquez, it’s been lovely working with you and I hope we cross paths in science often.
I am very happy to share that I passed my PhD viva! (with minor corrections) Immense gratitude to my wonderful supervisors Dr Gabrielle Wheway, @ProfDBaralle, Dr Reuben Pengelly and @ProfDIWilson, and to the @UoSDocCollege VC presidential scholarship for making this possible!
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We are getting amazing emails from people who have identified individuals with RNU4-2 variants ❤️ If this is you, and your families are interested in meeting others or being part of a community, then please direct them to @Unique_charity (@swynn_unique).
Thrilled to share our latest discovery on a spliceosomal snRNA gene causing neurodevelopmental disorders: medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/… Thank you to everyone who contributed; it’s been a phenomenal effort to collaborate with clinicians and researchers for what would help many families!
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