His Daughter's DNA
I'm nearly a week late with this news, but the 18 October issue of Nature has a great news feature about the amazing story of Hugh Rienhoff, his daughter and her DNA.
To my knowledge, this is the first SciFoo talk to reach the cover of Nature. I mentioned it briefly in a previous post, but it's well worth reading the professional journalistic coverage. It's in the Nature Podcast too (about half-way through, but don't miss lots of other genomics-related material in the same show). Also check out Hugh's website, MyDaughtersDNA.org, where he's trying to help others in similar situations.
I find this story simultaneously fascinating, heartrending and inspiring.
Comments
Thanks for plugging the story, Timo. It’s interesting to find out how different people have connected with it. So far, I’ve seen this in the blogosphere:
JANE, who runs a blog on lipedema called Big Leg Woman relates to difficult to diagnose and treat disorders here.
Pedro Beltrão at Public Rambling imagines a future in which everyone has their genomes at hand … along with a few other things here.
Shannon McWeeny from On { Informatics zeroes in on George Church’s interesting contribution to the mydaughtersdna.org project here.
Keith Robison of Omics! Omics! doles out kind praise as he ponders the implicit complications of deciphering the cause of singe gene disorders, let alone the complex ones here.
And Hugh has told me of some of the very personal messages he’s received from supporters around the country, many of whom share stories about their own loved ones. His site, which had just gone live days before I started reporting the story in August, now has about five case studies on it.
Posted by: Brendan Maher | October 24, 2007 01:19 PM