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Artificial intelligence can accelerate clinical diagnosis of fragile X syndrome
An analysis of electronic health records for 1.7 million Wisconsin patients revealed a variety of health problems newly associated with fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited cause of intellectual disability and autism, and may help identify cases years in advance of the typical clinical diagnosis.
Researchers from the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that people with fragile X are more likely than the general population to also have diagnoses for a variety of circulatory, digestive, metabolic, respiratory, and genital and urinary disorders. Their study, published recently in the journal Genetics in Medicine, the official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG), shows that machine learning algorithms may help identify undiagnosed cases of fragile X syndrome based on diagnoses of other physical and mental impairments.
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STEVENS POINT - Teachers and school employees across central Wisconsin will start receiving doses of COVID-19 vaccines next week.
The vaccinations come as school districts throughout the region plan to, or have already, return to full or four-day in-person learning at all grade levels this month or next. Districts in the Wisconsin Rapids, Stevens Point, Marshfield and Wausau areas will hold on- or off-site clinics for their staff next week, with Marshfield Clinic Health System staff administering vaccine doses. Staff in the Wausau School District are scheduling appointments for vaccines through a separate, dedicated process at Aspirus.
A second series of clinics is slated for April, as many of the vaccines allocated for educational staff in the area are the two-dose Moderna and Pfizer vaccines, spokespeople at Marshfield Clinic and Aspirus said.