"Big Data" Gets Personal

Sci Transl Med. 2016 Jan 20;8(322):322fs3-3fs3. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aad9460.

Abstract

A woman at-risk for a rare fatal prion disease retrained in science with her husband and joined a bioinformatics team to analyze shared data, providing insights about variant penetrance and possible treatments (Minikel et al., this issue).

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Review
  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Computational Biology
  • Prion Diseases*
  • Prions*
  • Rare Diseases
  • Science

Substances

  • Prions