 Hi, I'm Brienne Kirkpatrick, lead author of the paper Genome Connect, Matchmaking Between Patients, Clinical Laboratories, and Researchers to Improve Genomic Knowledge. This paper is published in the matchmaker issue of the journal Human Mutation, and I've asked some of my co-authors to help me tell you a little bit about Genome Connect and what to expect when you read our paper. Genome Connect is supported by the Clinical Genome Resource and provides an opportunity for patients to add to the knowledge base by securely sharing their health history and genetic test results. Yeah, so the trend in the last five years in genetics, we have more powerful tools to identify additional genetic variants, either copy number variants or sequence variants. And what we're discovering is most of these are extremely rare. And Genome Connect is another mechanism beyond universities and laboratories working directly with each other to get patients engaged and contributing their own health data. So by having this more detailed information, which is being included as part of the Genome Connect process, we're able to partner that information with the information from genetic testing. When patients visit the Genome Connect website, the first thing they would do is register and complete the consent form and they would upload their genetic testing report or their lab report. They would then be asked to complete a body system survey which tries to look at all of the major health issues that they might have. And then lastly, they're giving us permission to be recontacted so in the future they might hear from researchers who are interested in contacting them or from laboratories or others who have additional questions about their health. In this paper you'll read about how Genome Connect was developed and how patients are being engaged in this process of sharing data, the relationship between Genome Connect and ClinVar, how the various parties are working together, and also other partnerships that Genome Connect is helping to forge. Feel free to reach out with any questions that you have. Our coordinator email address is info at genomeconnect.org. Thanks for watching and happy reading.