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Differences in our DNA have major influences on how our genomes function, but how?

Researchers from the NHGRI-funded Impact of Genomic Variation on Function Consortium are exploring how genomic variation affects genome function.

… subset of these variants play a role in human health and disease — but which ones? How genomic variations affect … will understand how these variants affect human health and disease.” … IGVF researchers are also examining how genes and … factors all tie in together to accurately predict risk and come up with effective solutions to help control the …

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The Human Genome Project is simply a bad idea

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.

… specific portions of the genome related to human disease, would make a much more sensible beginning.” A …

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Gene Sweepstakes (GeneSweep)

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.