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News Release
Research studies are now using polygenic risk scores to determine a person’s inherited risk for certain diseases, but there are inconsistencies in how these scores are calculated. NHGRI has published guidelines in Nature for how these scores should be reported.
News Release
NHGRI has appointed Neil Hanchard, M.D., Ph.D., as a clinical investigator within the Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch (MGMGB) in the Division of Intramural Research. Dr. Hanchard will head the Childhood Complex Disease Genomics Section within the MGMGB.
News Release
NIH will fund grants totaling $38 million over five years to develop methods that will improve the way that polygenic risk scores can be used to predict disease in diverse communities.
News Release
Genomicists and clinicians are beginning to offer patients genetic testing for a list of treatable diseases apart from the one that brought them into the clinic.
Policy Issues
Genetic information is used by law enforcement to investigate criminal acts and exonerate those who have been convicted of crimes they did not commit.
Media Advisory
With the publication of 16 high-quality reference genomes from across vertebrates, the Vertebrate Genome Project establishes standards for biodiversity genomics and reports discoveries in comparative biology, conservation, and health research
Fact Sheet
Genomic research has been central to understanding and combating the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic.
Fact Sheet
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers used state-of-the-art genomic sequencers to quickly sequence the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
The Genomics Landscape
In the August 2021 issue of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., spotlights the NHGRI Extramural Research Program and how it takes a dynamic approach to it's research portfolio to help foster groundbreaking advances in genomics.
Lesson Plans
The microbiome lesson plans were inspired by lectures and resources on the microbiome offered at the National Human Genome Research Institute’s (NHGRI) Short Course in Genomics.