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NIH will support research that incorporates DNA sequence information into electronic medical records.
… of Health will support research that incorporates DNA sequence information into electronic medical records. The … into EMRs The grants, administered by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), represent the third phase … in patient electronic health records, and along with genome-wide testing, explore the roles of variants in a …
Staff
Dr. Gerard Bouffard directs the Bioinformatics Group at the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC).
… University, where he combined his interests in early genome sequencing of the Escherichia coli genome with the … restriction endonuclease mapping data with published DNA sequence fragments to target and close gaps in the genomic … NHGRI director, Dr. Bouffard performed data management and analysis for a YAC-based, STS content physical map of human …
Staff
Dr. Mullikin was the former director of the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC).
… skills to the genomics field in 1997, just as the Human Genome Project was scaling up. He has been involved in many … Project as well as numerous other genome projects. His Sequence Search and Alignment by Hashing Algorithm (SSAHA) … extensively with biomedical researchers, developing data analysis methods specifically tailored for each class of …
News Release
Small businesses with NHGRI grants were instrumental in contributing to the completion of the human genome sequence, redefining the future of genomics.
… in contributing to the completion of the human genome sequence, redefining the future of genomics. … When Kelvin … is first isolated as multiple fragments and prepared for analysis. Then researchers determine the order of the four …
Clinical Research
The CLINSEQ® Study seeks to learn about the role that your genes play in your health.
… on its head. Trans-NIH Study Explores Medical Role for Genome Sequencing 2007: Patients with Cardiovascular Disease … the prevalence of McArdle disease from gene frequency by analysis of next-generation sequencing data. Genet Med, … 6503 participants: challenges of variant classification. Genome Res , 2015. [In Press]  Lewis KL, Han PK, Hooker GW, …
Fact Sheets
Genomics is the study of all of a person's genes (the genome), including interactions of those genes with each other and with the person's environment.
… Genomics is the study of all of a person's genes (the genome), including interactions of those genes with each … word.  … An organism's complete set of DNA is called its genome. Virtually every single cell in the body contains a … in a row and billions of reads at a time. To assemble the sequence of all the bases in a large piece of DNA such as a …
Research Training
The Clinical Center Genomics Opportunity promotes precision medicine and development of infrastructure to support clinical genomics at the NIH Clinical Center.
… Office of Intramural Research (OIR), the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), the Deputy Director of … offer partnering institutes access to subsidized exome sequence data on a total of 1,000 NIH Clinical Center … clinical support from NHGRI regarding incidental findings analysis and counseling, and support from the NIH Clinical …
News Release
A team of NIH-funded researchers have generated the first complete chromosome sequences from non-human primates.
… Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of NIH, and an author of the study. “Only the chimpanzee genome sequence was fairly complete before this, but even that still … in recent years due to new DNA sequencing technologies and analysis methods. These chromosome sequences add a …
News Release
On June 26, 2000, nearly 10 years into the 13-year project, President Bill Clinton announced an important milestone for the Human Genome Project at a major White House ceremony.
… Clinton june 26, 2000 … The signature goal of the Human Genome Project (HGP) was to generate a sequence of the three billion letters (A, C, G and T) in the … the completion of a working draft sequence of the human genome.   Standing beside President Clinton was Francis …
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Dr. Wilson is the co-chief of and senior investigator in NHGRI's Computational and Statistical Genomics Branch.
… Professor in 1993. He was recruited to the National Human Genome Research Institute in 1995. He is a scientist emeritus … properties of newly developed methods of genetic analysis for quantitative traits. … The overarching goal of … protein polymorphisms, STRPs, SNPs and next-generation sequence variants (SVs), in both family- and population-based …