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Your Genome
Information about the relationship between genomics and health for patients, families and health professionals.
… discover your genetic heritage and risks, and guide you in making healthy lifestyle choices. Use these interactive …
News Release
Researchers developed a technique that will aid in a more accurate reconstruction of human genomes.
… (USDA) have developed a new technique that will aid in a more accurate reconstruction of human genomes by … a genome from the much smaller pieces of DNA that sequencing machines are able to read, much like putting … cattle breeds to visually represent what happens at the genomic level. Most of the genome is shared by both parents. …
About Genomics
The Human Genome Project was an inward voyage of discovery led by an international team of researchers looking to sequence and map all the genes of our species.
… Project (HGP) is one of the greatest scientific feats in history. The project was a voyage of biological discovery … (known as a genome) of a select set of organisms. Launched in October 1990 and completed in April 2003, the Human Genome Project’s signature …
News Release
A simple blood draw is replacing a giant needle to the belly for testing their fetuses for a range of genetic disorders.
… This non-invasive blood test, combined with advances in genomic medicine, has many predicting that prenatal whole genome sequencing will be widely available in the next five years. … …
Educational Resources
The Human Genome Project was an international project that mapped and sequenced the entire human genome.
… Conducted from 1990 to 2003, the project was historic in its scope and scale as well as its groundbreaking approach for the free release of genomic data well ahead of publication, leading to a new ethos for data sharing in biomedical research. … The Human Genome Project was an …
About Genomics
February 15, 2021 marks the 20-year anniversary of publications reporting the draft human genome sequence.
… In February 2001, Nature  and Science  published two … era in biomedicine that has since achieved ever-dropping sequencing costs, improved diagnosis of genetic disorders and genomic analysis in standard clinical practice. In its 2020 …
Research Funding
ClinGen will advance genomics in clinical care and improve our understanding of phenotypic and functional effects of genetic variants and their clinical value.
… Medical and research centers are increasingly sequencing patient exomes and genomes. However, it is … to disease. As a result, information on only a few genomic variants is used in clinical practice. One factor that limits the clinical use …
Media Advisory
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will host researchers from the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium, who have now sequenced the remaining 8% of DNA that was unable to be sequenced by the Human Genome Project and has eluded researchers for nearly two decades.
… Research Institute (NHGRI) will host a press conference in two parts for media. Two expert panels will discuss and … the complete sequence of the roughly 3 billion bases in our DNA. When: Thursday, March 31, 2022 (embargo lifts at … What: Virtual press conference to announce T2T consortium sequencing a complete human genome Moderator: Eric Green, …
15 Ways Genomics Influences Our World
Genomics is ending diagnostic odysseys for patients with rare diseases.
… About 80 percent of these rare disorders are genetic in origin, and 95 percent of them do not have even one … disorder. It is difficult to overstate the relief that genomic testing has brought to many of these patients and … two. … Matt Might and his family provide one such genome sequencing story. Matt and his wife Cristina knew almost …
Genomics and Medicine
Starting in 2019, the American Journal of Human Genetics has published an annual feature identifying ten key advances in applying genomic information to clinical care that were reported in the previous 12 months of published literature. The Genomic Medicine Working Group has authored these reviews, based on its broader effort to identify notable accomplishments in genomic medicine on a monthly basis. From this larger set of published accomplishments, the working group has continued to select ten papers annually to be highlighted as the most significant.
…   2024 Year in Review 1. Testing and managing iron overload after genetic … for all ancestries 8. Broader access to clinical genome sequencing benefits diverse individuals with rare diseases 9. … GA, Ramos EM, Roden DM, Rowley R, Taylor CO, Williams MS. Genomic medicine year in review: 2024 . Am J Hum Genet . 2024 …