“Big data” gets personal

A woman at-risk for a rare fatal prion disease joined with a bioinformatics team to analyze shared data that provided insights about penetrance and treatment. A woman at-risk for a rare fatal prion disease retrained in science with her husband and joined a bioinformatics team to analyze shared data, providing insights about variant penetrance and possible treatments (Minikel et al., this issue).

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