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The Genomics Landscape
In the January 2020 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green highlights the newly developed polygenic risk scores webpage, which provides graphical and textual information about polygenic risk scores, describes polygenic traits, introduces how polygenic risk scores can be calculated, and explains how such scores can be interpreted.
… new and more powerful ways to assess people’s genetic risk for developing various diseases. One approach has … approaches for using polygenic risk scores as a tool for disease prediction and, it is hoped, improved health … by variants in more than one gene), such as coronary heart disease, diabetes, and depression. Such methods take into …
The Genomics Landscape
In the January 2020 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green highlights the newly developed polygenic risk scores webpage, which provides graphical and textual information about polygenic risk scores, describes polygenic traits, introduces how polygenic risk scores can be calculated, and explains how such scores can be interpreted.
… definitively associated with the most common form of the disease. The panel’s results were published in the journal … for Emerging Centers in Fiscal Year 2020. …  Rare Disease Day is a worldwide observance that aims to raise … Eric Green highlights the newly developed polygenic risk scores webpage, which provides graphical and textual …
The Genomics Landscape
In the July 2018 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green highlights the 10th anniversary of the Undiagnosed Diseases Program.
… to direct the program today. With the goal of improving disease management for individual patients and advancing … basic researchers to identify the underlying mechanisms of disease. Training clinicians in the use of contemporary … New Evidence that Viruses May Play a Role in Alzheimer's Disease Novel Drug Therapy Partially Restores Hearing in Mice …
Leadership Initiatives
The Genomics and Health Disparities Interest Group provides a forum to connect individuals from different scientific disciplines across the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and researchers in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area engaged in genomics and health disparities research, as well as provide opportunities for professional development, networking and community engagement.Â
… accelerates , understanding the role of genomics in disease risk and its integration into clinical care is increasingly … community engagement. … health disparities, disease risk, clinical care, interest groups … The Genomics …
Policy Issues
Genome editing is currently being applied to research on cancer, mental health, rare diseases, and many other disease areas.
… on cancer, mental health, rare diseases, and many other disease areas. … Basic research exploring human and nonhuman … to help scientists understand the basic biology underlying disease, as well as to discover new possible therapeutic … begin evaluating the safety of potential treatments. The risk of off-target edits, or unintended edits, and their …
News Release
Three practical strategies for reducing the risk of re-identification, the process by which anonymized personal genomic data are matched with the owner.
… compares three practical strategies for reducing the risk of re-identification - the process by which anonymized … protections … Three practical strategies for reducing the risk of re-identification, the process by which anonymized … chromosomes … Three practical strategies for reducing the risk of re-identification, the process by which anonymized …
Staff
Barbara Thomas is a scientific review officer for the Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR).
… and Executive Director of the NIH Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR) , a trans-NIH program that provides … a scientific review officer for the Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR). … Barbara Thomas, genomic data sharing, Center for Inherited Disease Research (CIDR), peer review, grant applications … …
Event
On May 19-20, 2016, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) hosted a two-day workshop where participants were asked to weigh the benefits and risks of sharing aggregate genomic data with secondary users.
News Release
A new phase of the IGNITE Network will conduct clinical trials of genomic medicine interventions.
… of high blood pressure, hypertension and chronic kidney disease. Both hypertension and high blood pressure exacerbate … APOL1 ) gene that increase susceptibility to severe kidney disease by a factor of 10. Researchers will compare whether … of high blood pressure and improved prevention of kidney disease caused by high blood pressure. Treatment of …
The Genomics Landscape
In the April 2021 issue of the Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D. talks about the NIH UNITE program's goal to end structural racism in biomedical research.
… of both genomic and non-genomic contributors to health and disease — routinely considering the importance of social and … genomic conditions can provide insights into more complex disease processes, where the causes are often a truly … a 22-item framework that identifies the minimal polygenic risk score-related information researchers should include in …