Benjamin Solomon

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This was a very fun project to work on: I asked a number of colleagues to discuss their thoughts (and hopes) regarding the way the field of dysmorphology may evolve. @acedens @KrawitzPeter @shahida_moosa
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Super cool article by @genome_gov colleagues on the genetics of dog behavior (one fascinating thing they saw: "a sheepdog-associated enrichment for interrelated axon guidance functions")
cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

A good joke my son told me (he may have come up with this himself in bio class):
What did chlorophyll call their imaginary friend?
A pigment of their imagination.

Here's a DALL-E 2 picture we made of "an oil painting of a fancy chloroplast in a suit"

Q425
Out of 100 people with pathogenic variants in a certain gene, 50 develop heart disease; out of 100 people without pathogenic variants in that gene, 10 develop heart disease. What is the relative risk of heart disease in people with pathogenic variants in that gene?