Jason Liebowitz: Doctors thought they knew what a genetic disease is – they were wrong
Jason Liebowitz, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, shared a post on X about a recent article by him published in The Atlantic:
“To many doctors, genetic disease has always implied an inherited condition. Yet physicians are realizing that mutations present only in certain cells may help explain illnesses that were never considered ‘genetic’ at all, Jason Liebowitz writes.”
Eddie Cliff, Haematology Registrar at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, shared this post, adding:
“A nicely written The Atlantic article on VEXAS and somatic mutations – medicine has lots to learn from molecular haematology!”
“Doctors Thought They Knew What a Genetic Disease Is. They Were Wrong.”
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Jason Liebowitz, M.D., is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is board-certified in rheumatology and internal medicine.
His research has been published in The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and Arthritis Care and Research. Dr. Liebowitz is co-editor of Clinical Innovation in Rheumatology and the Interdisciplinary Rheumatology series and a staff writer for The Rheumatologist.
Edward Cliff is a Haematology Registrar at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at the University of Melbourne. He is also a Research Affiliate at the Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law (PORTAL). His research interests include lymphoid malignancies, immunotherapies, clinical trials, and health policy.
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