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Dr. Joan Bailey-Wilson, who retired in September 2022, looks back on her 42-year career as a scientist and reflects on the rapid growth of the genomics field.
… cancer. We identified the first gene to cause carcinoid tumors in one family we studied. What was truly exciting was … the high-risk genetic variant, diagnose and remove their tumors at a very early stage, and thus save their lives.  It … predict individuals at very high risk of carcinoid tumors. As one of the first in her family to go to college, …
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NHGRI researchers find that specific abnormal chromosomal patterns in prenatal blood tests warrant whole-body MRI cancer screening.
… cases, the atypical results can be explained by benign tumors, autoimmune diseases, or blood abnormalities in the … Many of them had lymphoma and, in some cases, rare tumors. Often, the participants are in the early stages of … who were found to not have cancer, some had benign tumors in the uterus, known as fibroids; abnormal chromosomal …
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Genomicists and clinicians are beginning to offer patients genetic testing for a list of treatable diseases apart from the one that brought them into the clinic.
… including up to a 95% chance of thyroid cancer and tumors in the thyroid area. While the tumors are not always cancerous, they can cause painful …
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Genomic analyses turned up genes that belong to inflammatory pathways.
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Annual scientific lecture honoring NHGRI's founding scientific director, Jeffrey M. Trent, Ph.D.
National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research
The Director's Report Related documents contain links to materials supplemental to Dr. Eric Green's Director's Report presentation to the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research in February 2020.