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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.