Yaoqing Shen

The cover image is based on the article Identification of a Non-Coding Causative Variant Underlying Warsaw Breakage Syndrome Using Long-Read Based Genomic Sequencing and Transcriptome Analysis by Makenna DuBois et al., https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.a.64252.

Gabrielle Herzenberg and Tariq A. Bhat contributed equally to this study. C. James Lim and Rebecca J. Deyell are responsible for communication. Conflicts of Interest MAM serves on Terry Fox Research Institute's (TFRI) Research Council, Network Council, Canadian Spectrum Working Group, Technology Working Group (co-chair), Open Accrual Working Group, Digital Health Discovery Platform (co-chair), and as co-lead of the BC Cancer Consortium, which receives and allocates TFRI funding.

Significance News coverage of current affairs is predominantly negative. American accounts of this tendency tend to focus on journalistic practices, but this cannot easily account for negative news content around the world. It is more likely that negativity in news is a product of a human tendency to be more attentive to negative news content. Just how widespread is this tendency?