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Genetic Disorders
Sickle cell disease is a group of inherited red blood cells disorders.
… Sickle cell disease is a group of inherited red blood cell disorders. … … A baby born with sickle cell disease inherits a gene for the disorder from both parents. When both parents have …
Research Training
The Clinical Center Genomics Opportunity promotes precision medicine and development of infrastructure to support clinical genomics at the NIH Clinical Center.
… The Clinical Center Genomics Opportunity promotes precision medicine and … Center. … The program provides an exciting opportunity for the Institutes that participate in the NIH Clinical … Institutes to effectively use genomic data in clinical research and clinical care. The NIH Office of Intramural …
Research at NHGRI
NHGRI center focused on computationally intensive approaches to analyze large-scale genomic data and identifying genetic contributions to human disease.
… The Center for Genomics and Data Science Research focuses on the development and application of … focus on identifying genetic contributions to human disease. … Genomics is, fundamentally, a data science. …
Clinical Research
The Undiagnosed Diseases Program provide answers to patients with mysterious conditions that have long eluded diagnosis.
… Diseases Program (UDP) is part of the Undiagnosed Disease Network (UDN), an NIH Common Fund initiative that … most puzzling medical cases referred to the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. It was organized by the … of Rare Diseases Research (ORDR) (now the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences Division of Rare …
Educational Resources
An inherited trait is one that is genetically determined.
… Inherited … An inherited trait is one that is genetically determined. … Inherited Trait, Mendelian Genetics, Genes, Family Health History, Genealogy … Inherited, as related to genetics, refers to a trait or …
News Release
NHGRI will highlight rare disease research that benefits affected patients and provides insights into more common disorders on Rare Disease Day.
… Institute (NHGRI) researchers are highlighting rare disease research that benefits affected patients and also … February 27 event. In NHGRI's Medical Genetics Branch , for example, Ellen Sidransky, M.D. , and her colleagues, have … diseases, go to the Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center (GARD), which is supported by the NHGRI/National …
Diversity Center
The Morehouse School of Medicine established the Center of Genomic Diversity that aims to create a transformative impact on genomics research and health outcomes in minority populations, fostering an inclusive and equitable research environment.
… School of Medicine (MSM) will build a world-class genomics research environment that is sustainable and impactful, … research infrastructure that empowers knowledge research for elucidating novel genomic connections to health in racially and ancestrally diverse cohorts. The center aims to create a transformative impact on genomics …
Genetic Disorders
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease is an inherited neurological disease characterized by a slowly progressive degeneration of the muscles and loss of sensation.
… Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) is an inherited neurological disease characterized by a slowly … in adolescence or early adulthood. There is no cure for the disease, but there are treatment options, including … Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Information Page National Center for Biotechnology Information Genetics and Rare …
News Release
NIH recently awarded approximately $6.8 million in grants to several research teams to study the biology of rare and undiagnosed diseases.
… research centers, including a Model Organisms Screening Center and a Metabolomics Core, as part of the NIH … explore how specific genes and their variations may cause disease in UDN patients. Finally, a one-year grant supports a central biorepository for storing UDN research participant tissue samples. "The …
Research Funding
The centers study in innovative ways to address important ethical, legal, and social issues related to advances in genomics.
… is critical. All of these factors contribute to a need for new and more innovative approaches, including new … to ongoing genetic, genomic and ELSI research efforts. A Center should: Develop and operate with a highly effective … and Social Issues for Precision Medicine and Infectious Disease Gail Geller, Sc.D., $4 million (FY 2016-2019) This …