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The Genomics Landscape
In the February 2024 issue of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green spotlights the Genome Statute and Legislation Database, which recently received a major revamp to help researchers, policy analysts, and the public more easily find state-level legislation related to genomics.
… 101st meeting of the  National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research . I invite you to  watch the Open Session of … legislation. That is why in 2014, NHGRI created the  Genome Statute and Legislation Database (GSLD) , which … mix, NHGRI’s current and former scientific directors had a wide-ranging discussion in a recently released two-part video …
Fact Sheet
Pharmacogenomics is a growing area of genomic medicine that uses a patient's genomic information to help healthcare providers select the medications and dosages that are predicted to work best in each patient.
… medicine).     … What is pharmacogenomic testing? Studies indicate that more than 98% of people may have a … how a person responds to medications, including their genome, environment, lifestyle, and medical history, as well …
The Genomics Landscape
In 2022, The Genomics Landscape spotlighted genomic data sharing each month in a series of entries. This page contains a collection of each of those entries.
… Phenotypes (dbGaP), model organism databases (e.g., Mouse Genome Informatics and Xenbase ), and cloud repositories … by allowing genomic data to be combined across studies, and accelerates the pace of discovery by increasing … different languages, the document is now accessible to a wide range of patients.   As the lines between patient care …
Fact Sheet
Genomic research has been central to understanding and combating the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic.
… is PCR? … Companion Fact Sheets … Beginning with the Human Genome Project 30 years ago, NHGRI has supported research …
Profile
Reflecting on his NIH career, Dr. Smith recounts his journey from researcher to program director in a conversation with NHGRI science writer Sonja Soo, Ph.D. He looks ahead to a retirement filled with traveling, spending time with friends and family, playing pickleball and brewing ale.
… Glen Evans, who was recently funded to work on the Human Genome Project, studying human chromosome 11. Glen hired me, allowing me to work on the Human Genome Project for three years. My focus was on developing … new technologies and techniques for human genetic studies. We worked on developing methods for mapping disease …
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An interview with Meru Sadhu, an Earl Stadtman Investigator and head of the systems biology and genome engineering section within the NHGRI Intramural Research Program, where he talks about his research and why yeast have a special place in his heart.
… Stadtman Investigator and head of the systems biology and genome engineering section within the Intramural Research Program of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the National Institutes … Stadtman Investigator and head of the systems biology and genome engineering section within the NHGRI Intramural …
The Genomics Landscape
In the August 4, 2022 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., talks about the establishment of the Global Biodata Coalition (GBC), which aims to move towards more internationally coordinated, sustainable, and streamlined mechanisms that support the biodata ecosystem.
… Director of the then-named National Center for Human Genome Research in the early 1990’s! If you would like to … that the goal of researchers contributing to the Human Genome Project (HGP) was to submit their sequence data into a … DMS policy means for you!   …   Starting with the Human Genome Project, the field of genomics has been at the …
News Release
In an article published in the American Journal of Human Genetics, researchers have found that words scientists use to describe populations have changed from 1949 to 2018.
… survey, which was led by researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of NIH, was published … it was performed on papers in only one journal. “Future studies can dig deeper into how labels for populations …
Virtual Exhibit
The Gene Sweepstakes — or GeneSweep as it became popularly known — was a three-year-long, sweepstakes-style contest organized by British bioinformatician Ewan Birney, Ph.D., of the European Bioinformatics Institute. Scientists participated in the contest by betting on the total number of protein-coding genes that would be identified in the human genome sequence generated by the Human Genome Project.
… explore the locations of genes across the immense human genome sequence. Dr. Birney and his colleagues began … in 1999 in anticipation of the completion of the Human Genome Project.    As genes were identified, the Ensembl … to the assessed total of 24,847 genes at the time (later studies lowered this number to ~20,000). In 2024, Dr. Rowen …
News Release
NHGRI researcher Dr. Julie Segre has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine.
… Prabarna Ganguly, Ph.D. … National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) researcher Dr. Julie Segre … has been an intramural researcher for nearly 20 years. She studies the microbial diversity of human skin in healthy … resistant bacteria. Dr. Segre published foundational studies defining the diversity of human skin-associated …