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Researchers have conducted the first study to look at the genomic underpinnings of obesity in continental Africans and African Americans.
… clusters in families. Researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National … and globally. This is the first study to use a Genome-Wide Association Study (GWAS) to investigate the genomic basis of …
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NIH will fund researchers to develop computational approaches to figure out which differences in DNA make people more susceptible to disease.
… genetic variants - in the less-studied regions of the genome that are responsible for regulating gene activity. A … with a disease, researchers typically conduct a genome-wide association study (GWAS), which compares the genomes of …
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Grants are awarded to GTEx project to explore human gene expression and regulation in different tissues, and how genomic variation modulates that expression.
… in the Division of Genomic Medicine at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), which helps administer the … For the last decade, scientists have used genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to study the role that genomic …
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In a large-scale study of people from diverse ancestries, researchers narrowed down the number of genomic variants that are strongly associated with blood lipid levels and generated a polygenic risk score to predict elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels, a major risk factor for heart disease.
… The authors include researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National … has performed over 6,000 studies  looking at the association of specific genomic variants and cardiovascular … researchers accumulated data from 201 previous genome-wide association studies, including about 1.65 million …
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NHGRI researchers have identified new genes associated with the Erdheim-Chester disease (ECD) and some possible new therapies.
… Jeannine Mjoseth … National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) researchers have identified …
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Dr. Andy Baxevanis has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
… the Computational Genomics Unit at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). … … genome, as well as lay the groundwork for translational studies focused on specific human diseases. Dr. Baxevanis …
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By considering mixed genetic lineages, NHGRI researchers demonstrated that previously inferred links between a genomic variant that helps digest lactose and traits such as a person’s height and cholesterol level may not be valid.
… mixed genetic lineages, researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National … as admixture. As such, the results from previous genome-wide association studies that do not account for admixture in …
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Researchers show critical association between diabetes and previously unlinked ZRANB3 gene.
… Prabarna Ganguly, Ph.D. … Researchers show critical association between diabetes and previously unlinked ZRANB3 … results for many of the variants which other research studies have already implicated in T2D in mostly European … populations. The work was funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), the National Institute of …
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In a new large-scale genetic analysis, National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists have found set of small RNA molecules, called microRNAs, in human pancreatic cells that are strongly associated with type 2 diabetes.
… The study, led in part by scientists at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health, will inform future studies on the early detection and treatment of diabetes. The … and senior author of the study. “The majority of prior studies have been in rodents or in islet-like groups of cells …
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NIH researchers have uncovered a key factor in understanding the elevated cancer risk associated with gene therapy.
… gene therapy for humans. Researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of NIH, published … gene therapy applications. But one prior study did find an association between AAV and the occurrence of liver cancer. … when the disease progresses. In prior MMA gene therapy studies, researchers showed that mice bred to develop the …