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NIH researchers and collaborators have found that that sickle cell trait is prevalent among diverse human populations.
… finds that sickle cell trait is prevalent among diverse human populations. … National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers and collaborators have found that … backgrounds with sickle cell trait. The study, published in Blood Advances , was led by researchers at National Human …
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NIH will fund grants totaling $38 million over five years to develop methods that will improve the way that polygenic risk scores can be used to predict disease in diverse communities.
… and one coordinating center. … The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will fund grants totaling $38 million over … that polygenic risk scores can be used to predict disease in diverse communities. Polygenic risk scores, often referred … people with and without a particular disease. The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of NIH, will …
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Three summer interns advanced biomedical research as part of the NIH Summer Internship Program in Biomedical Sciences.
… Kiara Palmer … Brenda Iriele grew up seeing first-hand the human cost of inadequate healthcare. Raised in Nigeria, a country where … project was to assist scientists with building out the Atlas of Human Malformation Syndromes in Diverse Populations …
Explainer
Appropriate use of population descriptors in research is a critical scientific issue that is important for advancing genomic science and improving healthcare across human populations.
… The Big Picture Appropriate use of population descriptors in research is a critical scientific issue that is important … advancing genomic science and improving healthcare across human populations. Thoughtful use by researchers and other …
Research Funding
The PAGE Consortium investigates ancestrally diverse populations to gain a better understanding of how genetic factors influence susceptibility to disease.
… highlighted the need to further explore initial findings in non-European populations. The Population Architecture … ( RFA HG-12-010 and RFA HG-12-015 ). The first phase of PAGE examined putative causal genetic variants across … Staff … The PAGE Consortium investigates ancestrally diverse populations to gain a better understanding of how …
About Genomics
Appropriate use of population descriptors in scientific research is critical for the advancement of genomic science and human health for all.
… Report: Using Population Descriptors in Genetics and Genomics Research In response to a request from the National Institutes of Health, the National Academies assembled an … has become far more accessible, and research using human genetic data has grown exponentially over the past …
The Genomics Landscape
In the June 2018 issue of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green highlights the success of The Cancer Genome Atlas.
… I was deeply flattered to receive an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Washington University at its 2018 … … After more than a decade, The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) program is drawing to an end. A … focused on studying the genomic changes in three types of human cancers: brain, lung, and ovarian cancer. After a …
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Researchers have released a new high-quality collection of reference human genome sequences that captures substantially more diversity from different human populations than what was previously available.
… More complete and sophisticated collection of genome sequences captures significantly more human diversity. … The new pangenome reference is a … the green and dark blue paths miss the C nucleotide in its route and represent a deletion variant. The light blue …
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Researchers identified regions of the genome associated with skin color variation in some African populations, furthering skin disease and cancer research.
… Jeannine Mjoseth … In the first study of its kind, an international team of genomics researchers has identified new regions of the human genome that are associated with skin color variation in …
About Genomics
A group of researchers, led by the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium, has released a high-quality collection of human genome reference sequences, which together comprise a human “pangenome” reference. Encompassing genome sequences from 47 people of diverse ancestries (with the goal of increasing that number to 350 by mid-2024), the human pangenome reference captures significantly more population diversity than the previous reference sequence.
… The NHGRI-funded Human Pangenome Reference Consortium has released a high-quality collection of human genome reference sequences, which together comprise … sequence was generated by the Human Genome Project in 2003. While this reference sequence has been regularly …