Search Results

1 - 3 of 3
Staff
Dr. Minear is a program director in NHGRI's Division of Genomic Medicine.
… Director in September 2024.  She directs the Polygenic RIsk MEthods in Diverse populations (PRIMED) Consortium and … Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) program, the Risk Underlying Rural Areas Longitudinal (RURAL) Cohort … are associated with atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease . Hum Genet . 2011 Jun;129(6):641-54. doi: …
Virtual Exhibit
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 …
Virtual Exhibit
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.