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About Genomics
NHGRI considers the ethical, legal and social aspect of genomics research in our work, including these key policy issues
The Genomics Landscape
In the August 6, 2020 edition of The Genomics Landscape, Dr. Eric Green talks about NHGRI's completion of the third phase of the ENCODE Project and how it reveals the most extensive catalog to date of candidate functional elements that may regulate the genes in the human and mouse genomes.
… genomics: the 30th anniversary of the launch of the Human Genome Project in October 2020. To amplify that drumbeat, the … performed nearly 6,000 experiments – 4,834 for the human genome and 1,158 for the mouse genome – ENCODE was able to develop an updated and …
About Genomics
The Human Genome Project was an inward voyage of discovery led by an international team of researchers looking to sequence and map all the genes of our species.
… The Human Genome Project (HGP) is one of the greatest scientific feats … to comprehensively study all of the DNA (known as a genome) of a select set of organisms. Launched in October 1990 and completed in April 2003, the Human Genome Project’s signature accomplishment – generating the …
15 Ways Genomics Influences Our World
We are learning how our genomes serve as blueprints for life.
… blueprints for life. … Did you know that just knowing the genome sequence of an organism only reveals part of the story … important to determine how that organism interprets its genome and uses that information to build and operate itself accordingly? Less than 2 percent of the human genome corresponds to "genes," but we know other parts are …
Genomics and Medicine
Starting in 2019, the American Journal of Human Genetics has published an annual feature identifying ten key advances in applying genomic information to clinical care that were reported in the previous 12 months of published literature. The Genomic Medicine Working Group has authored these reviews, based on its broader effort to identify notable accomplishments in genomic medicine on a monthly basis. From this larger set of published accomplishments, the working group has continued to select ten papers annually to be highlighted as the most significant.
… tool for all ancestries 8. Broader access to clinical genome sequencing benefits diverse individuals with rare … for children with suspected cancer from routine whole-genome sequencing 10. Clinical signatures of genetic … helps to prioritize critically ill newborns for whole-genome sequencing Population genomic screening for common …
Educational Resources
Genomics refers to the study of the entire genome of an organism whereas genetics refers to the study of a particular gene.
… Genomics … Genomics refers to the study of the entire genome of an organism whereas genetics refers to the study of … particular gene. … Genomics, Genes, Gene Expression, Human Genome Project … Genomics is a field of biology focused on studying all the DNA of an organism — that is, its genome. Such work includes identifying and characterizing all …
The Genomics Landscape
In the June 2018 issue of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green highlights the success of The Cancer Genome Atlas.
… University in Stanford, CA on July 17, 2018. … The Genome: Unlocking Life's Code  exhibition is currently … of genomics.  …  After more than a decade, The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) program is drawing to an end. A … the tumor and non-tumor samples, including exome and whole-genome sequencing, gene-expression profiling, copy-number …
The Genomics Landscape
In the April 7, 2022 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., highlights the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium's publishing of a collection of papers that reported the first truly complete sequence of the human genome.
… significance of their results.   …  In 2003, the Human Genome Project ended with the generation of an essentially complete sequence of the human genome. The project took the practical approach of using the … In the end, it delivered a remarkably high-quality human genome sequence that was nearly complete, accounting for an …
The Genomics Landscape
In the December 2018 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green recaps progress from NHGRI strategic planning process events in 2018.
… session prior to the official start of the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology  Meeting on February 27, 2019 in Marco Island, Florida.  … The Genome: Unlocking Life's Code  exhibition is currently … at a meeting  of the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research, NHGRI's new strategic planning process …
Educational Resources
The genome is the entire set of genetic instructions found in a cell.
… Genome … The genome is the entire set of genetic instructions found in a cell. … Genome, Genomics, DNA Sequence, Human Genome Project, Genes … The genome is the entire set of DNA …