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The NHGRI Education and Community Involvement Branch is co-hosting a webinar on January 9 with the Undergraduate Genetics Education Network that will explore the changing landscape of genetics from a largely descriptive field and emerging creative fields.
… Reimagined: Preparing Students to Explore the Forefront of Research and Design." This live, highly participatory … can your students expect to see as genetics and genetic engineering grow into a new variety of research and design fields? … Virtual … Genetics Reimagined: …
Talking Glossary
Genetic architecture is the combined effect of all genetic influences on a trait.
… Genetic Architecture … Genetic architecture is the combined effect of all genetic influences on a trait. … Genetic architecture describes the combined contribution of …
For Patients and Families
​Clinical research is research conducted with human subjects, or material of human origin, in which the researcher directly interacts with human subjects.
… Clinical research is research conducted with human subjects, or … the fundamental mechanisms of inherited and acquired genetic disorders. … Clinical research is research conducted … researchers may be able to determine the specific genetic mutations (changes in gene sequence) that caused the …
Educational Resources
The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) is federal legislation that makes it unlawful to discriminate against individuals on the basis of their genetic profiles in regard to health insurance and employment.
… Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) … The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) is federal … to discriminate against individuals on the basis of their genetic profiles in regard to health insurance and …
Research at NHGRI
The NHGRI Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch identifies and study genes that contribute to cancer susceptibility and progression.
… gastric cancers. They also study the relationship between genetic variation and cancer progression and pursue the … primary focus of CGCGB investigators is to identify the genetic contribution to the processes of cancer … response to treatment, and outcomes.  Conducts research on multiple types of cancer, including (but not …
News Release
Researchers with support from NIH will conduct research into the genetic underpinnings of Alzheimer's disease.
… support from the National Institutes of Health to conduct research into the genetic underpinnings of Alzheimer's disease, analyzing how … genomic regions that are likely to contain rare high-risk or protective Alzheimer's variants in individual …
For Patients and Families
The Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center helps people find useful information about genetic and rare diseases.
… The Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center helps people find useful information about genetic and rare diseases … The Genetic and Rare Diseases … (GARD)  was created in 2002 by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the Division of Rare Diseases …
Research Training
An opportunity for recent college graduates to spend a year engaged in biomedical research in NHGRI laboratories.
… The Post-Baccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award (Post-Bac IRTA) provides the … in biomedical investigation in National Human Genome Research Institute laboratories. … While in this program, … world in an environment devoted exclusively to biomedical research. In addition, during their tenure in the program, …
Research Funding
The three research domains to be considered for support by the NHGRI Ethical, Legal and Social Implications Research Program.
… and Economics … Program Contact: Nicole Lockhart … Genomic Research Design and Implementation Diversity and Inclusion in … and develops approaches to address challenges related to genetic and genomic research.  Genomic Healthcare This … deterministic nature of genomic findings and perception of genetic risk. How genomic researchers and the research …
Clinical Research
A study for patients with unexpected genetic results
… A new study is recruiting people who received unexpected genetic test results about their risk for cancer, heart … testing done for some other reason. … The Genomic Services Research Program (GSRP) is a study of people with "secondary … person’s health. Most secondary results have to do with high risks for health problems that can be treated or …