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The Genomics Landscape
In the November 2019 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green highlights the International Common Disease Alliance's scientific plenary and launch meeting in September, which included an international panel on opportunities emerging outside the U.S., North America, and Europe; discussions about polygenic risk scores; and an overview about data platforms, data sharing, and ethics.
… our common goals of understanding and treating common diseases. … Launched in 2012, the NHGRI History of … genomic, social, and cultural determinants of many human diseases. … Genomics Research Prolonged antibiotic treatment … Research Program announced NIH funding bolsters rare diseases research collaborations NIH funds new All of Us …
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On June 17-18, 2021, NHGRI hosts a workshop, Multi-Omics in Health and Disease: Current Applications, Challenges and Future Directions.
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Sickle cell disease is a hereditary disease seen most often among people of African ancestry.
The Genomics Landscape
In the July 2018 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green highlights the 10th anniversary of the Undiagnosed Diseases Program.
… as plot points for television dramas. The Undiagnosed Diseases Program (UDP) was conceived by Dr. William Gahl … Dr. Stephen Groft (then Director of the NIH Office of Rare Diseases, now part of the National Center for Advancing … and genetics. Dr. Gahl, an expert on rare genetic diseases, served as the founding Director of the UDP and …
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UDN expands the footprint of the network with a new metabolomics core and increased model organism capabilities.
… nationwide to begin the second phase of the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN). The total investment planned for the … was launched to build on the success of the Undiagnosed Diseases Program (UDP) at the NIH Clinical Center. "The UDN … information to help understand the cause of extremely rare diseases," said Anastasia L. Wise, Ph.D., program director …
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Researchers from NHGRI and the Undiagnosed Diseases Program (UDP) have discovered a new neurological condition characterized by issues with motor coordination and speech.
… Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and Undiagnosed Diseases Program (UDP) identified three children with the … to any neurological disease in humans. “Among genetic diseases, we’ve solved many of the lower hanging fruits,” … question in rare disease research,” said Malicdan. “Rare diseases can help us understand biological pathways, so we …
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Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and their colleagues have identified genomic variants that cause a rare and severe inflammatory skin disorder, known as disabling pansclerotic morphea, and have found a potential treatment.
… genetic basis for disabling pansclerotic morphea, a severe inflammatory disease. … Researchers at the National … identified genomic variants that cause a rare and severe inflammatory skin disorder, known as disabling pansclerotic … Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious …
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Over the last 20 years, three families have been unknowingly linked to one another by an unknown illness. Researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and other organizations have now identified the cause of the illness, a new disease called CRIA syndrome. The results of their work were published on Dec. 11 in the journal Nature.
… M.D., Ph.D., a pioneer in the field of autoinflammatory diseases, and his team discovered CRIA, which has symptoms … mostly normal but had heightened responses to a variety of inflammatory stimuli, which the researchers think may suggest … hold promise in both CRIA and other seemingly intractable inflammatory conditions. … Discovering a new disease … …
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In 1982, John Carey, M.D., and his colleagues named the rare disease, Carey-Fineman-Ziter syndrome. Now, researchers have identified the genomic mutations.
… of helping everyone else affected by CFZS and similar diseases in the future," said Mr. Hanson. "We've come a long …
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NHGRI, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and National Cancer Institute (NCI) will host a pre-application interactive webinar for the Multi-Omics for Health and Disease program funding opportunity announcements (FOAs): RFA-HG-22-008,
RFA-HG-22-009 and RFA-HG-22-010.