Cas Simons
@cassimons.bsky.social
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Rare disease program lead, Centre for Population Genomics. 🇦🇺🇳🇿
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cassimons.bsky.social
We are looking for a new Rare Disease Program Manager.

Are you looking for a hybrid role working with a team of scientists, clinicians, and engineers who are passionate about improving the lives of families living with rare diseases?

Reach out to hear more.

www.seek.com.au/job/85773801
Senior Project Manager Job in Parkville, Melbourne VIC - SEEK
We're seeking a driven Senior Project Manager to lead the coordination and delivery of our Rare Disease (RD) Program
www.seek.com.au
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carolinefwright.bsky.social
Pretty excited about giving Talos a try in the NHS @rdexeter.bsky.social‬. We should definitely be doing regular reanalysis of existing genome-wide sequencing data, just need the right tools!
genomeseb.bsky.social
@zornitza.bsky.social updating on Talos automated reanalysis pipeline #ESHG2025

>250 new diagnosis from 4744 unsolved cases. That’s 5% new extra for <1 variant per case, it’s #scaleable!

Pre-print now out: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Talos is #portable #opensource: github.com/populationge...
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ginaravenscroft.bsky.social
Thank you Danielle for your fight; your heartache will bring change.
www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

🙏 sign the petition to change the coronial process - to include genetic testing in the event of an unexplained death of an infant or young person.
surl.li/qeisra

#raredisease #PPA2 #infantloss
A coroner couldn’t tell Danielle how her son died. Then she lost her daughter
After losing her two babies, Danielle Green wants genetic testing introduced in the post-mortem investigations of young people.
www.smh.com.au
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chorye.bsky.social
When investors learn that the trait for green eyes is also ~20 SNPs
cassimons.bsky.social
Are you an experienced Bioinformatician looking to make a real-world impact for families living with rare disease? Love team science and working at scale? Remote-first (NSW, VIC or QLD).

Join me, @dgmacarthur.bsky.social, and the CPG Rare Disease Program:
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Career Opportunities: Rare Disease Bioinformatician (42637)
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jodieingles27.bsky.social
Our perspective on the role of genetic counselling in the Aus healthcare setting is now out! Very excited to see this out in the wild! Well done to @tatyanes.bsky.social for leading this and keeping us all in line 💥 @mja.com.au #genechat #medsky #genesky
tatyanes.bsky.social
Read our new perspective piece published in @mja.com.au. We explore the role of GCs in genomic medicine and current professional challenges. What started as passionate conference discussions has turned into a great perspective piece!

To read the paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.5694/...
Title: Genetic counsellors: facilitating the integration of genomics into healthcare
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ginaravenscroft.bsky.social
Thanks for including us Ben and all. If anyone has an ataxia patient with a EP400 polyQ expansion we'd love to hear from you. #repeatome #raredisease #ataxia
ben-weisburd.bsky.social
It was great to be able to contribute the EP400 finding to this preprint. Together with @ginaravenscroft.bsky.social and @cfolland.bsky.social we flagged a novel CAG repeat locus in the EP400 gene as a likely (though extremely rare) cause of spinocerebellar ataxia when expanded to ≥55 repeats. [1/N]
biorxiv-genomic.bsky.social
Detailed tandem repeat allele profiling in 1,027 long-read genomes reveals genome-wide patterns of pathogenicity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.06.631535v1
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reza-maroofian.bsky.social
We report 35 patients with biallelic RBL2 loss-of-function variants presenting with developmental delay/intellectual disability, hypotonia, seizures, microcephaly & brain abnormalities. Drosophila models recapitulate key features & suggest RBL2 re-expression may help rescue neurological symptoms.