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The Genomics Landscape
In the October 2024 issue of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green welcomes James Thomas as the new director for NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC).
… has been linked to a range of diseases, including leukemia, lymphomas, and other types of cancer, but these …
For Patients and Families
​Genetic research is creating new ways for people to take action and prevent disease and new ways to treat disease through personalized medicine.​ ​
… in tumors. Children with a common type of childhood leukemia can be tested to find the right doses of …
For Patients and Families
​Pharmacogenomics combines the science of how drugs work, called pharmacology, with the science of the human genome, called genomics.​
… (Purinethol) to patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Some people have a genetic variant that interferes …
Genetic Disorders
Severe Combined Immunodeficiency is a severe, genetic condition of the immune system.
… a French gene-therapy experiment had developed a type of leukemia. It was soon discovered that the mechanism used to …