Last updated: March 13, 2012
National Advisory Committee for Human Genome Research - Director's Report Related Documents
National Advisory Committee for Human Genome Research
Director's Report Related Documents: September 2007
Announcements
- Maynard Olson Receives the 2007 Gruber Prize for Genetics
- Marco Marra Elected to RSC: The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada
New NHGRI Initiatives
ENCODE
Genes and Environment Initiative (GEI)
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- RFA-HG-07-010: A Data Analysis Center for the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Project (U01)
- RFA-MH-08-040: Methods of Statistical Analysis of DNA Sequence Data for Studies Relating Variation to Disease (R01)
- RFA-HG-07-012: Genome-Wide Association Studies in the Genes, Environment and Health Initiative - Study Investigators (U01)
- RFA-HG-07-014: Epidemiologic Investigation of Putative Causal Genetic Variants-Study Investigators (U01)
- RFA-HG-07-015: Epidemiologic Investigation of Putative Causal Genetic Variants-Coordinating Center (U01)
Recent News Releases
- Study to Probe How Healthy Younger Adults Make Use of Genetic Tests
- Mouse Model Points to Possible New Strategy for Treating Rare Muscle Disease, Kidney Disorders
- Journal of Clinical Investigation: Mutation in the key enzyme of sialic acid biosynthesis causes severe glomerular proteinuria and is rescued by N-acetylmannosamine
- New Findings Challenge Established Views on Human Genome
- NIH Awards Nearly $5 Million to Fund Knockout Mouse Repository
- The Cancer Genome Atlas Awards Funds for Technology Development
- New Grants Bolster Efforts to Generate Faster and Cheaper Tools for DNA Sequencing
- NHGRI Funds Two Centers of Excellence in Genomic Science
- New Director to Advance Computational Biology Efforts
Recent Articles
ENCODE
All articles are from Genome Research and are open access.
Molecular Libraries Screening Network
Zebrafish Knockout Bank
Population Genomics
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- Pseudogenes in the ENCODE regions: Consensus annotation, analysis of transcription, and evolution
- The ENCODEdb portal: Simplified access to ENCODE Consortium data
- Identification of higher-order functional domains in the human ENCODE regions
- The DART classification of unannotated transcription within the ENCODE regions: Associating transcription with known and novel loci
- What is a gene, post-ENCODE? History and updated definition
- A framework for collaborative analysis of ENCODE data: Making large-scale analyses biologist-friendly
- Statistical analysis of the genomic distribution and correlation of regulatory elements in the ENCODE regions
- Finding cis-regulatory elements using comparative genomics: Some lessons from ENCODE data
- Prominent use of distal 5' transcription start sites and discovery of a large number of additional exons in ENCODE regions
- Neurobiology of Disease: Differentiating Alzheimer Disease-Associated Aggregates with Small Molecules
- PNAS: Three classes of glucocerebrosidase inhibitors identified by quantitative high-throughput screening are chaperone leads for Gaucher disease
- Nature: Reporting data from high-throughput screening of small-molecule libraries
- Nature: Image-based chemical screening
- genome.gov Web Feature: Process Paves Way for Zebrafish Knockout Bank
- Efficient genome-wide mutagenesis of zebrafish genes by retroviral insertions
- NHGRI Office of Population Genomics Cohort Study Summary Table
- Science: Identifiability in Genomic Research
- NOT-OD-07-088 [grants.nih.gov]: Policy for Sharing of Data Obtained in NIH Supported or Conducted Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS)
- Nature: New models of collaboration in genomewide association studies: the Genetic Association Information Network
Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) Update
- Nature: U.S. Genetics Bill Blocked Again
Sequencing Status Update
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