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Dr. Minear is a program director in NHGRI's Division of Genomic Medicine.
… Diverse populations (PRIMED) Consortium and co-leads the Clinical Genomics (ClinGen) Resource .  She is interested in … the ethical and equitable translation of genomics into clinical practice and public health.  Before joining the … results to participants. Dr. Minear received her Ph.D. in genetics and genomics, as well as completed postdoctoral …
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The Human Genome Project changed traditional understandings of how and why scientific research is conducted. It was, however, not without its detractors. Early in 1990, there was an effort to stop funding for the nascent Human Genome Project, in the form of a letter writing campaign.
… approaches exist more harmoniously as both genomics and genetics continues to become more integrated in everyday …
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The Gene Sweepstakes — or GeneSweep as it became popularly known — was a three-year-long, sweepstakes-style contest organized by British bioinformatician Ewan Birney, Ph.D., of the European Bioinformatics Institute. Scientists participated in the contest by betting on the total number of protein-coding genes that would be identified in the human genome sequence generated by the Human Genome Project.
… papers about their predictions in the same issue of Nature Genetics. The striking difference in their predictions …