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Dr. Galarreta is a board-certified pediatrician and biochemical geneticist in NHGRI's Metabolic Medicine Branch.
… phenotyping and natural history of rare diseases, epidemiology of birth defects related to the VACTERL …
News Release
NHGRI has selected Charles Rotimi, Ph.D., as the next scientific director. In this role, he will lead the institute’s Intramural Research Program, which conducts basic and clinical research to enable a greater understanding of human disease and to develop better methods to detect, prevent and treat genetic disorders.
… from the University of Mississippi, Oxford; and a Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. …
News Release
Research studies are now using polygenic risk scores to determine a person’s inherited risk for certain diseases, but there are inconsistencies in how these scores are calculated. NHGRI has published guidelines in Nature for how these scores should be reported.
… Genevieve Wojcik, Ph.D., M.H.S., an assistant professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public …
News Release
Four NIH grants will support research on the ethical, legal and social questions raised by genomics research advances and genomic information.
… fields - bioethics, law, behavioral and social sciences, epidemiology, public health, public policy, genomics and …
Staff
Dr. Amy Bentley is a Staff Scientist with the NHGRI's Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health.
… Dr. Bentley received a Ph.D. in Nutrition with minors in Epidemiology and Genetics from Cornell University in 2010, … such as the Cohorts on Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) consortium, in order to support the …
The Genomics Landscape
In the July 2019 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green reflects on the milestones of the Newborn Sequencing in Genomic Medicine and Public Health (NSIGHT) Program as it reaches completion.
… . …  The Population Architecture using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE) consortium recently published research …
Staff
Dr. Lanata is a staff clinician in NHGRI's Genomics of Autoimmune Rheumatic Disease Section.
… and was a Co-Investigator for the California Lupus Epidemiology Study, which yielded multiple collaborative …
Staff
Dr. Wilson is the co-chief of and senior investigator in NHGRI's Computational and Statistical Genomics Branch.
… Institute, NIH, and an adjunct professor, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public … of Human Genetics (ASHG) and the International Genetic Epidemiology Society (IGES). He has served on the ASHG …
The Genomics Landscape
In the November 2018 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green highlights the 25th anniversary of NHGRI's Intramural Research Program.
… agriculture, design, and media. His work in genetic epidemiology and population genetics that includes an …
Clinical Research
GENE-FORECAST® is developing a community cohort and resource for defining the significance of ancestry-related genomic variation in African-Americans.
… of CVD (e.g. heart attack and stroke). Based on previous epidemiology studies, it is anticipated that the prevalence …