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#antivaxx efforts now even use #deepfake

to target #refugee, Black, religious minority communities

like measles outbreak in Minnesota in 2019: Wakefield was flown in TO spread #misinformation & #disinformation

Now: online fake accounts/fake identities vs #VaccinesWork
What has #healthcare been doing meanwhile?

#Medbikini: Teach (male Asian) med students to make fake accounts to cyberstalk trainees’ personal Facebook for: bikini
or “being political” or “religious” (#BLM)

➡️“model minority” pipeline for “shadow faculty” vs Blck @ayshakhoury
#Medbikini #research got flak for men vs women

BUT was ALSO fake acct #surveillance vs #BLM like drove out @ayshakhoury @uche_blackstock @nhannahjones

While academia has ignored #vaccineequity
➡️ongoing #pandemic & deaths in marginalized targeted by #antivaxx

@womanistpsych
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So glad to finally 😅 share our #breastcancer fine mapping paper published today in @NatureGenet
nature.com/articles/s4158…
Here come the main highlights 👇🏼
We evaluated in detail 150 known #breastcancer risk regions using genotyped 🧬 data from the #BCAC and #CIMBA
Many researchers 👩🏽‍💻🧑🏼‍🔬👩🏻‍🔬👨🏽‍🔬👨🏾‍💻participated in this study that involved more than 200k subjects!
We defined up to 205 independent risk signals with high confidence, and their most plausible candidate variants. Most variants are located at tissue specific #breastcancer regulatory regions and transcription factor binding sites
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