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The N​on-Coding Variants Program explores which variants in a region associated with a disease or trait cause the higher risk for the disease or trait
… of many people are sequenced, millions of sites in the genome differ among those people. Some of these genetic … of genes? A start to interpreting variation is a genome-wide association study (GWAS), in which the genomes of thousands …
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NSIGHT explores the implications, challenges and opportunities associated with the possible use of genomic sequence information during the newborn period.
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The Genomic Variation Program supports large-scale studies of human genetic variation.
… false detection rate of 5 percent. About 96 percent of the genome can be studied with high confidence. More than 80 … The Genomic Variation Program supports large-scale studies of human genetic variation as part of projects such … and responses to drugs and environmental factors, such as association and admixture approaches, and how to use patterns …
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The centers define the state-of-the-art study designs and methods to find variants and genes underlying Mendelian disorders.
… The National Human Genome Research Institute funded the Centers for Mendelian … of the genetic basis of Mendelian disorders using genome-wide approaches, which are more rapid and …
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The Data Use Oversight System (DUOS) is a semi-automated study registration and DAR management service informed by the GA4GH DUO standard, which enables the secondary use of human genomics and other controlled-access data in compliance with the informed consent of a study’s participants.
… and approval times of researcher DARs. … National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) National Institute for …
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The Multi-Omics for Health and Disease Consortium aims to advance the application of multi-omic technologies to study health and disease in ancestrally diverse populations.
… ‘omic analyses have produced valuable insights, recent studies have shown that integrative (or multi-omic) analysis … NCI … NIEHS … Contributing NIH Institutes: National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) National Cancer Institute …
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The centers study in innovative ways to address important ethical, legal, and social issues related to advances in genomics.
… Program has funded research grants from investigators in a wide range of disciplines. Many of these projects have used … research). Add value beyond the genomics and ELSI research studies that are already ongoing at the applicant … issues raised by such research; 2) to conduct scholarly studies that inform the ethical practice of research; and 3) …
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The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) Project will create a resource that researchers can use to study how inherited changes in genes lead to common diseases
… be used by many researchers around the world for future studies. GTEx researchers are studying genes in different … of the Director, in partnership with the National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institute of Mental … for the many researchers who are exploring the human genome. Understanding how the eQTLs change gene behavior in …
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NIH-backed African scientists are engaged in a global research endeavor to understand the genetic basis of disease in all populations.
… the most genetically diverse. … A Global Research Endeavor Studies have shown that African populations contain the … set of human genes. However, most studies of the human genome have focused on European ancestry populations. By not … Ph.D., H3Africa program director at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), who helps coordinate the …
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MorPhiC aims to develop a consistent catalog of molecular and cellular phenotypes for null alleles for every human gene by using in-vitro multicellular systems.
… Using Omic Data from Gene Knockout and Human Phenotype Studies U01 HG013177 … The 2020 NHGRI Strategic Vision laid … gene will be known; for non-coding elements in the human genome, such knowledge will be the rule, rather than the exception.” Systematically obtaining genome-wide information about gene functions is critical for …