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A picture worth a thousand words: Guess the diagnosis! December 29, 2008

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in genetics, Genome.
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This picture is really worth a thousand words. I have a tip about the possible diagnosis, a genetic condition. What’s yours?

fragile-x

(Via Aequanimitas and  Clinical Cases and Images)

And have you seen the table of mug-shots featuring the members of the Personal Genome Project currently having their genomes sequenced? You can read more about it on Genetic Future as Daniel MacArthur has a lo of things to say:

pgp_mugshots

Top row from left: Misha Angrist, Keith Batchelder, George Church, Esther Dyson, Rosalynn Gill.
Bottom row from left: John Halamka, Stanley Lapidus, Kirk Maxey, Steven Pinker, James Sherley.

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1. precordialthump - December 29, 2008

For a second I thought the mug-shots at the bottom shared the same diagnosis!… Then I thought, “Wow, that look’s like Steven Pinker… I’d better read more closely”….

2. Todd - October 19, 2009

Fragile x.

3. Anonymous - October 26, 2009

Fragile x

4. Watching TV on My PC - January 27, 2010

For a minute I thought I was looking at the FBI’s 10 most wanted! LOL

5. Anonymous - April 11, 2010

Long face, everted ears, marfanoid-like

6. Dr. Tiption - April 12, 2010

Fragile X Syndrome, or Huntington disease, or even Martin-Bell Syndrome, at a very effected state.

7. jose lister - December 13, 2011

i think its fake what you think ,,,!!


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