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15 Ways Genomics Influences Our World
Genomics is ending diagnostic odysseys for patients with rare diseases.
… . This fatal disease, caused by abnormal proteins in the brain called prions, makes the brain start functioning abnormally, with symptoms that …
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Researchers with support from NIH will conduct research into the genetic underpinnings of Alzheimer's disease.
… data from different racial/ethnic groups, and examine how brain images and other biomarkers are associated with genome … will examine whether CNVs influence memory performance, brain images and other biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease. …
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On November 16-17, 2023, the National Human Genome Institute will co-sponsor a workshop, Advances in the Genetic Architecture of Complex Human Traits, to take a historically grounded and forward-looking approach towards dissecting the genetic architecture of complex traits in humans.
… Biomarkers, Disorders of the Gut and Disorders of the Brain Naomi Wray, Oxford University 2:00 p.m.  Major Genes …
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On October 25-29, 2022, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) will participate in the ASHG Annual Meeting - the world's largest human genetics and genomics meeting and exposition.
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The developmental Genotype-Tissue Expression initiative's goal is to catalog and analyze transcriptional profiles from a wide variety of tissues from the pediatric period, including neonates through adolescents, in a post-mortem setting.
… Interchange Philadelphia, PA University of Maryland Brain and Tissue Bank Baltimore, MD University of Rochester …
Clinical Research
In the late 90’s and early 2000’s, scientists at the NIH highlighted an increased incidence of Parkinson disease among patients with GD and their families.
… is generally no effective treatment due to the severe brain involvement and inability of current therapies to cross the blood-brain barrier. Life expectancy is usually less than 2 years. …
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The NIH-funded Integrative Human Microbiome Project presented at the International Human Microbiome Congress.
… genomics and disease risk prediction; the microbiome and brain function and neurological diseases; and the use of …
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Addressing the COVID-19 pandemic and what it means to the pediatric mitochondrial disease community.
… example, pediatric mitochondrial disease often affects the brain, which may cause children to experience movement …
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It’s teatime and doctors, researchers and patients are at the table. They celebrate a decade of work and launch the first in-human gene therapy trial for children with a rare and devastating disease, GM1 gangliosidosis.
… else. She has a disease that attacks nerve cells in the brain, rendering them useless, one by one. When Jojo was … functioning copies of the defective GLB1 gene to the cat's brain cells. Viruses are ambitious. They try to take over … The cats finish developing at eight weeks, but Jojo's brain continues to develop until she is 18 years old. I'm …
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NHGRI researchers have identified new genes associated with the Erdheim-Chester disease (ECD) and some possible new therapies.
… seen in colon cancer, lung cancer, thyroid cancer, brain tumors and some blood cancers. Other patients had …