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Research Funding
The Division of Genomic Medicine promotes the NHGRI's efforts to advance the application of genomics to medical science and clinical care.
… March 5-6, 2019, Bethesda, Md. Revisiting the Missing Heritability of Complex Diseases, Ten Years On May 1-2, 2018, … with Complex Diseases: Explaining the Unexplained Heritability from Genome-Wide Association Studies February …
News Release
NHGRI researchers have developed the Families Sharing Health Assessment and Risk Evaluation (SHARE) workbook, which helps people use their family history to assess their risk for heart disease, diabetes, breast cancer and colorectal cancer.
News Release
NHGRI and other NIH institutes recently participated in the high-energy science communications contest called the Three-minute Talk.
… spoke on "The Connectome in the Human Brain: Defining its Heritability and Association with ADHD," placed second, and …
Fact Sheets
Epigenomics is a field in which researchers chart the locations and understand the functions of all the chemical tags that mark the genome.
Genetic Disorders
Marfan syndrome an inherited disorder of connective tissue occurring once in every 10,000 to 20,000 individuals.
News Release
Mothers may be able to reduce guilt over their children's inherited obesity guilt by being more careful in the future about their children's diet.
… to being overweight, and there is much about this heritability that we don't know," Dr. Persky said. "Any of …
Staff
Dr. Erin M. Ramos is the director of the Divison of Genome Sciences at the National Human Genome Research Institute.
… Mackay TF, McCarroll SA, Visscher PM. Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases. Nature, 461(7265):747-53. …
The Genomics Landscape
In the October 1, 2020 edition of The Genomics Landscape, Dr. Eric Green reflects on the last 30 years since the launch of the Human Genome Project.
Policy Issues
Federally-funded research with human participants must comply with regulations that protect the rights and welfare of the participants.