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This is a fellowship program designed for recent undergraduates to gain exposure to and training in multiple career paths that advance public service for human genetics and genomics.
Educational Resources
Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are a type of polymorphism involving variation of a single base pair.
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… . . . . 167 8.8 Gene therapy, stem cell therapy and human cloning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 8.9 Summary … cloned and sequenced 1985 ÒDisease genesÓ isolated by positional cloning Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) 2000 The … first called reverse genetics and later re-christened positional cloning, led to the discovery of genes for many …
Staff
Dr. Shawn Burgess is the co-deputy director of NHGRI's Intramural Research Program.
… proviral insertions as the mutagen, allowing for rapid cloning of the mutated gene. To date, this effort represents …
Educational Resources
A contig is a series of overlapping DNA sequences used to make a map that reconstructs the original DNA sequence of a chromosome or a region of a chromosome.
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Dr. Leslie Biesecker is a clinical and molecular geneticist in and the chief of NHGRI's Center for Precision Health Research.
… of these syndromes, Dr. Biesecker's group initially used positional cloning, and more recently was in the forefront of using …
Research Funding
Applications demonstrating excellent grantsmanship, grant mechanisms and research methodologies common to ethical, legal and social implications research.
Staff
Abdel Elkahloun is an associate investigator in NHGRI's Office of Scientific Core Facilities.
… University of Rennes, France. His Ph.D. thesis was on the positional cloning, physical mapping and genetics of hemochromatosis. He …
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… • NSGC recently approved a position statement on human cloning by somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) for …
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Dr. Paul Liu is a senior investigator in NHGRI's Translational and Functional Genomics Branch.
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… et al., PNAS 2002, and Sood et al., Blood 2010). Using a positional cloning/candidate gene approach, they identified a non-sense …