Tychele Turner is assistant professor of genetics at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, where her lab focuses on the study of noncoding variation in autism, precision genomics in 9p deletion syndrome, optimization of genomic workflows and the application of long-read sequencing to human genetics.
Tychele Turner
Assistant professor of genetics
Washington University School of Medicine
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How long-read sequencing will transform neuroscience
New technology that delivers much more than a simple DNA sequence could have a major impact on brain research, enabling researchers to study transcript diversity, imprinting and more.
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Focus on function may help unravel autism’s complex genetics
To find the pathogenic mutations in complex disorders such as autism, researchers may need to conduct sophisticated analyses of the genetic functions that are disrupted, says geneticist Aravinda Chakravarti.
Focus on function may help unravel autism’s complex genetics
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26 June 2012 | 7 min read
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