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- Multi-Omics for Health and Disease (Multi-Omics)1
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Policy Issues
Scientific institutions are developing recommendations to support the responsible use of human gene-editing research.
… trials should be limited to treatment and prevention of disease or disability, but also suggested there should be …
News Release
As you celebrate Thanksgiving with your family, remember that this special day is also National Family Health History Day.
… is important to your health . It can help you detect disease risks that are unique to your family and take steps … providers, the hospital, your doctor's office or a cancer risk clinic. Watch a video from NHGRI Director Eric Green, …
News Release
DNA Day Reddit “Ask Me Anything” prompts rousing discussion.
… impact biological systems and contribute to health and disease. In addition, there are important strides being made … their genes, we found that the kids with a certain ‘higher risk’ DNA variant in the FTO gene ate significantly more … to health outcomes, with a particular focus on inherited disease. We consider interpersonal ties from a health …
Policy Issues
Informed consent shows respect for personal autonomy and is an important ethical requirement in research.
… over time. Raise privacy concerns (in part because of the risk of re-identification). Be relevant for family members … allocated for complex genomics concepts such as increased disease risk rather than definitive diagnoses and long-term storage …
News Release
Cari Young and Julie Nadel join NHGRI as public policy and education fellows.
… likes to address scientific questions and think about new disease models from a genetics perspective. Julie received …
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.
… which can disrupt the body's usual processes and lead to a disease such as cancer. … Sequencing simply means … may play a role in the development or progression of a disease. The disease-causing change may be as small as the … use is to look for the genetic variations that increase risk of specific diseases, such as cancer, or to look for the …
Policy Issues
NHGRI has created the IDE Greenhouse as an educational resource to help increase understanding of the regulation in the genomics context.
… granted IDEs or classified as posing non-significant risk (NSR) provided the following documents as a reference …
Policy Issues
Synthetic biology is a field of science that involves redesigning organisms for useful purposes by engineering them to have new abilities.
… children every year and greatly increases a child's risk of death from infectious diseases. Yeast engineered to … the polio virus from scratch and brought attention to the risk that synthetic biology could be used to develop … Select Agents Program regulates the possession of high-risk infectious agents like polio for research and other …
Policy Issues
There are laws and policies that serve to protect the privacy of individuals' genomic information.
… or other studies on wide-ranging topics such as infectious disease to birth defects. De-identified biospecimens are not … defined communities and members of ultra-rare disease groups) presents unique privacy concerns due to a … if research reveals the group to have a high risk of harboring a genetic variant associated with a …
For Teachers
Tools and resources for teaching the concepts of transcription and translation, two key steps in gene expression
… the story of "Jason," a student intern at the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC). While working with a CDC …