O ur daughter Ellen wrote the post that I republish below 3 years ago, and we've reposted it in commemoration of Rare Disease Day, Febru...

M y daughter Ellen wrote this post last year for Rare Disease Day.  We repost it today.  It's frustrating that, in the age of genetics,...

By Ellen Weiss Despite being the product of  two of the authors of this blog – two people skeptical about just how many of the fruits...

In the spring of 2011, Ken and I took a bit of a pilgrimage to England. We followed Darwin's footsteps in Malvern, but that was only op...

We asked last week why healthy people should have their genome sequenced.  We appreciated the thoughtful comments people left on the post; ...

We posted last week about hypokalemic periodic paralysis  (HKPP), a disorder that causes weakness and sometimes even temporary paralysis, d...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning As we wrote last week, we were in England, on a bit of a pilgrimage.  We followed Darwin's footsteps in Ma...

We've written a lot about complex disease in this blog, but we thought it was now time to give the complexity of single-gene disorders i...