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#WeekendLecture
#GeneticsAndStroke

#Genetics is involved in several #stroke related conditions, such as small vessel disease #SVD, aneurysms, dissections, cavernomas, and intracranial #hemorrhages

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#Weekendlecture

#Genetic & #SVD
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✅1,5% of cerebral #SVD are #monogenic disorders
✅AR, AD or X-linked
☝🏼Absence of family history doesn't rule out diagnosis because of
👉de novo mutation
👉reduced expression or
👉incomplete penetrance
ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/ST…
#Weekendlecture

#Genetic & #SVD

When to #suspect?🕵️‍♀️

✅early onset stroke without vascular RFs
✅systemic features and neuroimaging of an specific monogenic disorder
✅consanguinity
✅negative work up for other causes of SVD

👉ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/ST… Image
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1/13 While #COVID19 warrants our attention and swift, concerted action, we cannot forget about the existing high global burden diseases like #tuberculosis.
2/13 In ”Exact mapping of Illumina blind spots in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome reveals platform-wide and workflow-specific biases” preview.tinyurl.com/vyhckyc, @crobinhold1 @Valafarlab & I provide a roadmap for navigating #Illumina coverage bias when #sequencing Mtb #genomes
3/13 We use a #phylogenomic filtering step to remove evolutionary signals isolating systematically low coverage and provide lists of #Illumina #blindspots for seven #sequencing workflows (lib prep + instrument) at single-base resolution
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