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New Clues for Kids: Whole-Gene Scan Analyzes Mystery Illnesses

Posted: October 18, 2014 at 3:45 pm

A new kind of genetic test that analyzes all of a persons genes can provide a diagnosis about a quarter of the time for patients whose conditions have baffled doctors, scientists reported Saturday. And for young children with mysterious developmental delays, the test gives a diagnosis more than 40 percent of the time.

The test is called whole-exome sequencing, and it looks at all 20,000 or so genes in the human body. Its not a whole genome sequence because it leaves out DNA thats not classified as a gene. But such tests provide a good map of the so-called protein coding sequences.

It was a relief for Audrey Lapidus of Los Angeles, whose baby son Calvin seemed just fine at first. But at 6 months, an osteopath suggested genetic testing. She said he had some very interesting facial features, Lapidus told NBC News. Other pediatricians rejected the notion.

But then he just wasnt hitting the milestones, she said. He wasnt sitting up or rolling over.

Deep down, I knew something was wrong."

Still, pediatricians and friends alike reassured her. A basic genetic panel came back clear.

Everyone wants to tell you about their nephew who didnt walk until he was 2 and he graduated from Harvard, Lapidus said. I was holding on to those stories.

At the same time, she continued to visit geneticists and neurologists. Deep down, I knew something was wrong, she said.

Calvin became the first child at UCLA to get a whole-exome genetic test at UCLA, in 2012. When it came back, it showed Calvin had Pitt-Hopkins Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder affecting only 250 children worldwide.

Its caused by a single mutation on one gene found on chromosome 18. It causes developmental delays, seizures and, as Calvins osteopath suspected, distinctive facial features, such as thin eyebrows and sunken eyes. Children often never learn to speak or walk without help.

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Spray Censorship (Garry’s Mod Murder) – Video

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Donate to my Extra Life page: http://www.extra-life.org/participant/CraigAA I was hoping for a nice friendly game of stab your friends. Instead, I was treated to multiple examples of Brett #39;s...

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Man films Chinese censorship in real time on TV – Video

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Man films Chinese censorship in real time on TV
A European living in southern China decided to film himself watching an international news broadcast about a Hong Kong protester being beaten by the police. In mainland China, any news or idea...

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Reporters circumvent White House censorship with Google Groups – Video

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Reporters circumvent White House censorship with Google Groups
Responding to allegations by it members of censorship by administration officials, the White House Correspondents Association is testing a system that circumvents the president #39;s office and...

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Censorship Fears Grow as Officials Move to Tackle 'Negativity' in Russian Media

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The St. Petersburg Times

Published: October 18, 2014 (Issue # 1833)

Igor Chernyshev told the Izvestia newspaper that he aims to create a "forum for discussing the question of our country's information policy" with the editors of national media outlets. Photo: Pixabay

Days after President Vladimir Putin signed a law forcing foreign companies to sell stakes in Russian media, members of Russia's upper house of parliament have advocated applying state pressure to combat a glut of "negative" news that is poisoning the country's image, a news report said Friday.

The proposal's mastermind Igor Chernyshev told newspaper Izvestia that he aims to create a "forum for discussing the question of our country's information policy" with the editors of national media outlets in the upper house, which is known as the Federation Council.

"It's very important for formulating an image even within our government among people, among regions, let alone internationally," Chernyshev said.

"It is a wonky situation when national media show only what they themselves consider important or 'hot topics,'" he said.

Chernyshev's proposal comes hard on the heels of a law limiting foreign ownership of Russian media to 20 percent that critics say was designed to increase the state's leverage over media outlets. Previous legislation had set a 50 percent limit on ownership of radio and television media but left print where foreign companies have a huge presence untouched. The new law threatens the Russian assets of at least 15 international media houses.

Some media professionals were less than enthused by Chernyshev's proposal. Vladimir Pozner, a respected media personality and talk show host on state-run Channel One, said Friday that the idea strongly resembled the attitude towards media under the Soviet Union.

"There is no negative or positive information there is information This looks a lot like an effort to introduce censorship," Pozner told news website Slon.ru.

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Ron Paul: Ebola panic is much more dangerous than the disease itself – Video

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Ron Paul: Ebola panic is much more dangerous than the disease itself
Three time presidential candidate, former Republican congressman Ron Paul joins Larry King on Politicking to talk about Ebola, Obama, ISIS and his son, Raud Paul #39;s White House hopes. RT...

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Ron Paul Interviews Voices of Liberty Contributor Kristin Tate – Video

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Political commentator and VOL Contributor Kristin Tate joins former Congressman Ron Paul in studio for a discussion in youth libertarianism and immigration reform. More at voicesofliberty.com!

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Q&A with Jeremy Arney – Libertarianism and CAP Policies – Video

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What is Libertarianism? | A Libertarianism.org Guide

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Liberty. Its a simple idea, but its also the linchpin of a complex system of values and practices: justice, prosperity, responsibility, toleration, cooperation, and peace. Many people believe that liberty is the core political value of modern civilization itself, the one that gives substance and form to all the other values of social life. Theyre called libertarians.

If youre new to libertarianism and want to learn more, the items below will give you a good start.

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In just 20 minutes, David Boaz introduces libertarianism, explores the ideas behind it, and the policies it leads to. If you want to know what libertarianism is all about, this is the place to start.

November 3, 2011 Essays

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Libertarianismits theory, its practiceis an awfully big topic. This reading list gives you a place to start. A combination of newcomers and established classics, these books offer accessible introductions to variety of libertarian thought, from philosophy to history to economics.

April 5, 2012 Columns

Aaron Ross Powell

In this essay, Aaron Powell and Trevor Burrus explain how big government not only makes us poorer and less free, but also undermines our moral character and turns neighbor against neighbor.

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Tories target European Court of Human Rights

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Several decisions by the Strasbourg Court have particularly upset Tories. Above, party leader David Cameron addresses the Conservative partys annual conference earlier this month. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg

In the rush by the Tory Party right to outdo Ukip in proving its anti-European credentials the target has moved beyond the tyrannical EU to Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights.

Worryingly, as the assault on the court not only threatens to undermine its standing as the primary human rights standard-setting body in what are still some slightly constitutional states in eastern Europe, but may threaten our own Belfast agreement.

In part the Tory obsession is just because anything beginning with euro is anathema, in part, a exceptionalist sense that British justice is intrinsically superior and does not need lessons from foreigners. Beg to differ, mlud.

Which all makes strangely ironic the proposals by the party to repudiate the convention on human rights if which is most unlikely the 47-member-state Council of Europe does not allow the UK to ignore those of the courts binding rulings that dont suit it. The court and convention, after all, were largely products of British/Winston Churchills post-war desire to bind wayward Europeans into a legal rights order that came up to British standards.

And the rights defined in the convention were those that suited a particularly conservative outlook. As Nick Cohen noted in the Observer, the drafters of the convention on human rights, including David Maxwell Fyfe, a prosecutor at Nuremberg and himself a Tory MP, also had very much in mind that it would act as a protection against the socialism of Clement Attlees 1945 Labour government as much as against the communism of Joseph Stalins Soviet Union, and it shows. No question of social rights.

Several decisions by the Strasbourg court have particularly upset Tories. It ruled Britains ban on prisoners voting unlawful, that whole-life sentences should be subject to review,and that Abu Qatada, accused of terrorist offences, should not be deported to Jordan without guarantees about evidence based on torture. Further back there were also Irish-related findings that British troops were primed to kill in Gibraltar and the prohibition on interrogation techniques used on suspects interned in Northern Ireland.

Tories insist that existing European rights will be incorporated into a new British bill of rights. All that will change is that English judges will no longer have to follow the rulings of the then merely advisory court. If that means the same end result, as Cohen asks, what is the point? If it were only so simple . . .

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