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NHGRI appointed Carolyn Hutter, Ph.D., director of the Division of Genome Sciences, which researches human genome function in health and disease.
… The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has appointed Carolyn Hutter, Ph.D., the director of the Division of Genome Sciences - the NHGRI division that … understand the function of the human genome in health and disease, and seeks technologies that facilitate genomic …
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The Multi-Omics for Health and Disease Consortium aims to advance the application of multi-omic technologies to study health and disease in ancestrally diverse populations.
… David Conti, Alaina Vidmar, Tanya Alderete University of Southern California Longitudinal integration of environmental exposures, omics, and childhood NAFLD (LEON) Study Disease Study Site** Stephanie Christenson*, Neeta Thakur, … and Disease Consortium aims to advance the application of multi-omic technologies to study health and disease in …
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The Genome Sequencing Program uses genome sequencing to identify genes and genomic variants underlying human inherited disease.
… The Genome Sequencing Program is consists of the following centers funded through multiple funding … has evolved from NIH's participation in the International Human Genome Sequencing Project (HGP). In addition to … creating data resources and tools. The specific activities of the Genome Sequencing Program since the end of the HGP …
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Scientists have published the first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome, two decades after the Human Genome Project produced the first draft human genome sequence.
… have published the first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome, two decades after the Human Genome Project produced the first draft human genome … to researchers, having a complete, gap-free sequence of the roughly 3 billion bases (or “letters”) in our DNA is …
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NIH programs are establishing which genes and genomic variants play a role in human disease, enabling use in medicine and research.
… Programs supported by the National Institutes of Health are establishing which genes and genomic variants play a role in human disease, enabling their use in genomic medicine and research. … developed by the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the Association for Molecular Pathology to …
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NIH researchers have discovered a rare and sometimes lethal inflammatory disease - otulipenia - that primarily affects young children.
… National Institutes of Health researchers have discovered a rare and sometimes lethal inflammatory disease - otulipenia - that primarily affects young children. … identified anti-inflammatory treatments that ease some of the patients' symptoms: fever, skin rashes, diarrhea, …
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Researchers recommend genomic approaches to discovering inherited variants in one or a handful of genes that affect an individual's rare disease risk.
… sequencing technologies can generate detailed catalogs of genomic variants, researchers face an ongoing challenge of distinguishing variants that cause disease from those that do not. Scientists estimate that each … Biesecker, M.D., co-author and chief of NHGRI's Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch. "The peer review …
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Researchers have used a new combination of microfluidics and genomics to fish out a specific gut bacterium from the sea of microbes in the human microbiome.
… Researchers for the first time have used a combination of microfluidics and genomics to fish out a specific gut bacterium from the sea of trillions of microbes in the human microbiome. … disease, according to a study published online the week of June 23, 2014, in the Proceedings of the National Academy …
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Researchers identified regions of the genome associated with skin color variation in some African populations, furthering skin disease and cancer research.
… In the first study of its kind, an international team of genomics researchers has identified new regions of the human genome that are associated with skin color variation in … to cellular stress differently. National Institutes of Health researchers contributed to this effort, led by …
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Baylor College of Medicine. Houston and the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee will be providing DNA sequencing for the Undiagnosed Diseases Network.
… The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced today that Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee will be providing DNA sequencing … NIH announced six UDN grants that will fund studies of the function of genes thought to play roles in particular …