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Survivors and scientists : Hiroshima, Fukushima, and the Radiation Effects Research Foundation, 1975-2014
The biological anthropology of living human populations: World histories, national styles and international networks : An Introduction to Supplement 5
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Title: Objective Measures of Social Contact in Inclusive Preschool Classrooms: Demonstrating the Concurrent Validity with Teacher-rated Social Abilities in Children With and Without Autism Poster
Trust in standards: transitioning clinical exome sequencing from bench to bedside.
Clinical exome sequencing is a genetic technology making the transition from a laboratory research tool to a routine clinical technique used to diagnose patients. Standards help make this transition by offering authoritative shortcuts for time-intensive tasks, but each shortcut means that something is lost during abstraction. In clinical exome sequencing, reliance on standards may obscure the match between a patient's phenotype and genotype. Based on three years of observations, I show how a clinical exome sequencing team decides when to trust standards and when to develop workarounds. I argue that the match between phenotype and genotype is circumscribed by the team's reliance on specific standards and that trusting in standards means trusting in experts' appropriate use of standards, generating a workflow of reflexive standardization