Dr Jessie Jacobson
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There's likely going to be some environmental overplay over all of this.
And you can't always, you know, correlate this change in a gene to this particular presentation.
Which is annoying, isn't it?
It is, but it's what makes it interesting.
That's why we're still here, you know.
Yeah, I do.
I do.
And actually, I can kind of answer that because we published a paper last year, actually, that Ruth was a co-author on.
When we first...
launched our research, we were basically inundated with people in the space of a week of wanting to be involved.
It was somewhat overwhelming at the time.
I was the one like emailing all these individuals.
I was sort of somewhat flawed at the interest.
And as part of that, we had a really diverse range of people who were wanting to be part of the research.
Most of who we have in our research now are those that have been seen through the clinical space, through paediatricians or paediatric neurologists who would like
some extra support with trying to diagnose.
But at the start, we kind of included everyone who wanted a diagnosis.
So that research we published last year, which was essentially what we'd done in the space for the past 10 years, included a really diverse group of people that probably very few studies have really done around the world.
Most of them are very specific that they're going to include these individuals that have this co-occurring condition or
And they're very precise.