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15.2. Association of maternal gastric bypass surgery with offspring birth defects

M Neovius , B Pasternak , I Naslund , J Soderling , K Johansson , O Stephansson

To read the full abstract: JAMA. 2019 Oct 15;322(15):1515–1517. doi: 10.1001/jama.2019.12925.The authors merged data from separate national Swedish registers for births and obesity surgery and identified 2921 women who had a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery between 2007 to 2014 (‘cases’) and subsequent pregnancies. Controls were identified as women without bariatric surgery ...

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14.8. Patient-customized oligonucleotide therapy for a rare genetic disease

J Kim , C Hu , C Moufawad El Achkar , LE Black , J Douville , A Larson , MK Pendergast , SF Goldkind , EA Lee , A Kuniholm , A Soucy , J Vaze , NR Belur , K Fredriksen , I Stojkovska , A Tsytsykova , M Armant , RL DiDonato , J Choi , L Cornelissen , LM Pereira , EF Augustine , CA Genetti , K Dies , B Barton , L Williams , BD Goodlett , BL Riley , A Pasternak , ER Berry , KA Pflock , S Chu , C Reed , K Tyndall , PB Agrawal , AH Beggs , PE Grant , DK Urion , RO Snyder , SE Waisbren , A Poduri , PJ Park , A Patterson , A Biffi , JR Mazzulli , O Bodamer , CB Berde , TW. Yu

To read the full abstract: N Engl J Med. 2019 Oct 24;381(17):1644-1652. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1813279.This remarkable case report - by authors from Boston Children’s Hospital and funded by Mila’s Miracle Foundation - describes the development and use of a patient-customised antisense oligonucleotide drug that was tailored specifically against the unique DNA sequence mutation in a 6-ye...