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The Genomics Landscape
In the January 2020 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green highlights the newly developed polygenic risk scores webpage, which provides graphical and textual information about polygenic risk scores, describes polygenic traits, introduces how polygenic risk scores can be calculated, and explains how such scores can be interpreted.
… new and more powerful ways to assess people’s genetic risk for developing various diseases. One approach has … approaches for using polygenic risk scores as a tool for disease prediction and, it is hoped, improved health … by variants in more than one gene), such as coronary heart disease, diabetes, and depression. Such methods take into …
The Genomics Landscape
In the January 2020 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green highlights the newly developed polygenic risk scores webpage, which provides graphical and textual information about polygenic risk scores, describes polygenic traits, introduces how polygenic risk scores can be calculated, and explains how such scores can be interpreted.
… definitively associated with the most common form of the disease. The panel’s results were published in the journal  … for Emerging Centers in Fiscal Year 2020. …   Rare Disease Day is a worldwide observance that aims to raise … Eric Green highlights the newly developed polygenic risk scores webpage, which provides graphical and textual …
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Dr. William A. Gahl is a senior investigator in the Medical Genetics Branch and the director of the NIH Undiagnosed Diseases Program.
… He elucidated the basic defects in cystinosis and Salla disease, i.e., deficiencies of the lysosomal membrane … alkaptonuria, autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease, Chediak-Higashi disease, GNE myopathy, and Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome (HPS), a …
News Release
The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) has long invested in basic genetics and genomics research, clinical trials, as well as translational medicine and social science studies, to advance our understanding of this widespread illness to help develop effective therapies.
… two gene therapies for the treatment of sickle cell disease in patients 12 years and older. About  100,000 … and millions of people around the world have  sickle cell disease , a hereditary disease common among those whose ancestors come from …
The Genomics Landscape
In the April 2021 issue of the Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D. talks about the NIH UNITE program's goal to end structural racism in biomedical research.
… of both genomic and non-genomic contributors to health and disease — routinely considering the importance of social and … genomic conditions can provide insights into more complex disease processes, where the causes are often a truly … a 22-item framework that identifies the minimal polygenic risk score-related information researchers should include in …
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Vence Bonham is the acting deputy director for NHGRI and an associate investigator in NHGRI's Social and Behavioral Research Branch. ​
… to genomics. The Bonham group also studies sickle cell disease, a condition impacted by emerging curative genomic … group also studies sickle cell trait and sickle cell disease, a condition that affects 100,000 people in the … Microbiome and Environmental Contributions to Sickle Cell Disease and Leg Ulcers Study (INSIGHTS), conducted at two …
The Genomics Landscape
In the October 2023 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green, reflects on the twelve years of groundbreaking research by the Clinical Sequencing Evidence-generating Research (CSER) consortium.
… director, Anthony Fauci, M.D. Jeanne is an infectious disease expert, joining NIH from the University of Alabama at … the best,   … Repeat polymorphisms underlie top genetic risk loci for glaucoma and colorectal cancer Mukamel et al. … results in differences in traits, including the risk for disease. Some genomic variants are small, like changes to …
The Genomics Landscape
In the January 2025 issue of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green announces the appointment of Erin Ramos as the new director of the Division of Genome Sciences (DGSci).
… years, scientists have created hundreds of polygenic risk scores (PRSs), which are genetic tests that can be used … that have been shown to be associated with a particular disease. This involves analyzing genomic data from thousands … Since genomics accounts for only part of a person’s disease risk, the PRIMED Consortium is also investigating the …
The Genomics Landscape
In the August 2023 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green introduces incoming NHGRI DEO Director, Jennifer Troyer.
… the case that variants in many genes contribute to the risk of developing traits and diseases. Scientists and … use tools called polygenic scores to calculate such a risk by combining information about all the genomic variants associated with a disease. Many examples of using polygenic scores have been …
The Genomics Landscape
In the January 2024 issue of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green announces the appointment of Dr. Adam Phillippy as the founding director of the Center for Genomics and Data Science Research (CGDSR).
… two gene therapies for the treatment of sickle cell disease. About 100,000 Americans and millions of people around the world have sickle cell disease, and this treatment offers great promise for … of using genomic information for screening, diagnosis, and risk assessment in healthcare. …   The  Global Biodata …