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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 … focus on identifying genetic contributions to human disease. … Genomics is, fundamentally, a data science. … genomes of thousands of species and opening new avenues for studying genomic function and disease. Their efforts in …
News Release
eMERGE Network will support multiple clinical sites and a coordinating center with $75 million over five years.
… the provision of $75 million in funding over five years for the Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) … risk-assessment and management methods for a number of common diseases. Approximately half of the clinical sites … … About NHGRI and NIH … Related Content … NIH funds centers to improve the role of genomics in assessing and …
News Release
NHGRI researchers have discovered that Mediterranean populations may be more susceptible to an autoinflammatory disease because of evolutionary pressure to survive the bubonic plague.
… Prabarna Ganguly, Ph.D. … Genomic variants that cause common periodic fever have spread in Mediterranean … populations may be more susceptible to an autoinflammatory disease because of evolutionary pressure to survive the … FMF-causing genomic variants have been positively selected for in Mediterranean populations over centuries. The findings …
Research Funding
The centers define the state-of-the-art study designs and methods to find variants and genes underlying Mendelian disorders.
… The National Human Genome Research Institute funded the Centers for Mendelian Genomics (CMG) in 2011 with the charge to … approaches. This knowledge can also lend insight into the common or more complex phenotypes that involve similar genes, …
The Genomics Landscape
In the March 2024 issue of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green spotlights the Centers of Excellence in Genomic Science (CEGS) Program evaluation.
… Mooney, Ph.D. , will become the director of NIH’s Center for Information Technology (CIT). In this role, Sean will … ). …  As stewards of federal funds, the institutes and centers that make up NIH are expected to take a critical and … commonly used in research and they have many diseases in common, dogs have been generally underutilized in genomics …
Research at NHGRI
The Center for Precision Health Research, formerly Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, studies how health and disease are related to genetic, genomic and metabolic variation.
… The investigators in the Center for Precision Health Research (CPHR) develop and evaluate … to improve the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease to foster next-generation healthcare. … The Center … spectrum of disorders, with a range of heritability from common diseases associated with common genetic variants to …
Research Funding
Funded in 2016 to harmonize, access, and analyze the data produced by the sequencing centers.
… The Genome Sequencing Program Analysis Centers (GSPACs) were funded in 2016 to harmonize, access, … data and develop methods to discover variants underlying common, complex, and Mendelian diseases. … The currently … . The GSPACs work closely with NHLBI's Trans-omics for Precision Medicine Program  to harmonize joint variant …
The Genomics Landscape
In the January 2018 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green features the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center.
…  and Nature . While Science's  Breakthrough of the Year for 2017  is the cosmic merger of two neutron stars, the … intramural researchers at NHGRI and other NIH institutes/centers. Under the current leadership of Director Jim … (ENCODE) Project . Later, NISC became involved in NIH Common Fund's Human Microbiome Project , in which genome …
Training, Diversity and Health Equity Office (TiDHE)
The Centers for Genome Research Consortium aims to support the development of innovative genomic research projects through infrastructure building and the formation of interdisciplinary research teams at institutions that have not recently received significant funding from NIH.
… Current Centers  … The Centers for Genome Research Consortium aims to support the … funding from NIH and who have not participated in genomics research. These Centers will increase the genomics …
15 Ways Genomics Influences Our World
Genomics is ending diagnostic odysseys for patients with rare diseases.
… Genomics is ending diagnostic odysseys for patients with rare diseases. … Did you know that there … the surprising discovery that PRNP  mutations are more common than we previously thought, and these mutations don't … Network . This national network of medical and research centers aims to help both individual patients and to …