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Dr. Susan Persky is an associate investigator in the Social and Behavioral Research Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute. ​
… information about genomic underpinnings of obesity risk can significantly reduce the extent to which medical … to processes like gene-environment interactions, polygenic risk, genomic influence on health-relevant behavior (e.g., … one line of work examines the influence of genomic obesity risk information presented to a parent about their child, and …
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Dr. Meeks is a Special Volunteer at the Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health.
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Dr. Sudre is an Associate Investigator in Dr. Philip Shaw's Neurobehavioral Clinical Research within the Social and Behavioral Research Branch
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Dr. Erin M. Ramos is the director of the Divison of Genome Sciences at the National Human Genome Research Institute.
… focused on the genetic epidemiology of Alzheimer's disease and the ethical, legal, and social implications … into clinical care and improving methods for complex disease research including genome-wide association studies, gene-environment interactions, genomic risk assessment and the application of multi-omics …
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Dr. Douglas Stewart is an associate investigator in NHGRI's Center for Precision Health Research.
… is to improve disorder-specific clinical care and cancer risk prediction, while translating insights garnered from … common, monogenic disorder that dramatically increases the risk of various benign and malignant tumors in affected …
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Dr. Minear is a program director in NHGRI's Division of Genomic Medicine.
… Director in September 2024.  She directs the Polygenic RIsk MEthods in Diverse populations (PRIMED) Consortium and … Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) program, the Risk Underlying Rural Areas Longitudinal (RURAL) Cohort … are associated with atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease . Hum Genet . 2011 Jun;129(6):641-54. doi: …
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Dr. Teri Manolio is the director of the Division of Genomic Medicine at the National Human Genome Research Institute. ​
… genome-scale analytic technologies to clinical problems of disease diagnosis and treatment" said Dr. Manolio. "This … studies of complex diseases, ethnic differences in disease risk and incorporating genomic findings into clinical …
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Dr. Laura Elnitski is a senior investigator in the Translational and Functional Genomics Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute. ​
… regulatory elements in the human genome and their role in disease. She earned her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular … to uncover gene regulatory mechanisms that drive disease progression and therapeutic resistance. A central … providing critical insights into oncogenesis and disease mechanisms. Her research helped identify Suppression …
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Dr. Chris Gunter is a senior advisor to the NHGRI director on genomics engagement.
… 42,607 autism cases identifies mutations in new moderate-risk genes. Nature Genetics . 2022. [ PubMed ]  Gunter … and preliminary associations with autism spectrum disorder risk genes in rhesus macaques: A whole exome sequencing … for investigating causality of sequence variants in human disease. Nature , 508(7497), 469–476. 2014. [ PubMed ] …
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Dr. Lawrence Brody is a senior investigator in NHGRI's Social and Behavioral Research Branch and director of NHGRI's Division of Genomics and Society. ​
… Lawrence Brody studies the inherited components of human disease. He is interested in studying genetic mutations that … on identifying genetic variants that alter an individual's risk of developing specific conditions. These variants fall … Some are associated with a very high risk of developing a disease; variants of this type, such as those in known breast …