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The Genomics Landscape
In the January 2020 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green highlights the newly developed polygenic risk scores webpage, which provides graphical and textual information about polygenic risk scores, describes polygenic traits, introduces how polygenic risk scores can be calculated, and explains how such scores can be interpreted.
… field of genomics. …  Dr. Josh Denny has now arrived at NIH to assume his new position as CEO of the All of Us … research group from Vanderbilt University to the NHGRI Intramural Research Program  (IRP). Josh is a world leader in … program will be to facilitate the use of the NIH Clinical Center by intramural researchers for conducting …
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NIH researchers have sequenced the whole genome of a dog native to Sardinia, Italy, and discovered in it clues about the migration of humans to the area.
… Jeannine Mjoseth … National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers have sequenced the whole genome of a dog … National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of NIH, and their Italian collaborators, were reported August … and guard humans as they have for hundreds of years. By sequencing the whole genome of a Fonni's Dog and comparing it …
Talking Glossary
Next-generation DNA sequencing (abbreviated NGS) refers to the use of technologies for sequencing DNA that became available shortly after the completion of the Human Genome Project (which relied on the first-generation method of Sanger sequencing).
… Next-Generation DNA Sequencing … Next-generation DNA sequencing (abbreviated NGS) refers to the use of technologies for sequencing DNA that became available shortly after the …
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Four NIH grants will support research on the ethical, legal and social questions raised by genomics research advances and genomic information.
… to educating the next generation of researchers. Each center is built so researchers can look to the future within … found at www.genome.gov . National Institutes of Health (NIH) : NIH, the nation's medical research agency, includes 27 …
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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.
… Raymond MacDougall … The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced today that Baylor College of Medicine in … College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee will be providing DNA sequencing for the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN). Each … medical centers and at the NIH, as well as a coordinating center operated by Harvard Medical School in Boston. In …
About NHGRI
NHGRI research undergoes peer review by advisory committees who review extramural grant applications and intramural research programs.
… committees that review extramural grant applications and intramural research programs. … Committee members represent … committees who review extramural grant applications and intramural research programs. … Advisory committee, National … Human Genome Research, peer review, grant applications, intramural research … NHGRI research undergoes peer review by …
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NIH leaders are calling for the scientific community to develop a consensus on the appropriate use of race and ethnicity in biomedical research.
… in biomedical research, National Institute of Health (NIH) leaders are calling for the scientific community to … data and its appropriate use in biomedical research. Major NIH efforts are also underway to enhance representation of … in biomedical research. ​ … genetic variation, DNA sequencing, health disparities, race and ethnicity, ancestry …
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NIH awards more than $64 million to for a database of human cellular responses called the Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures or LINCS.
… Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), both part of NIH, administer the program on behalf of the NIH Common Fund. The LINCS program aims to catalog and … six years Principal Investigator: Peter Sorger, Ph.D. This center will develop new measurement methods and computer …
The Genomics Landscape
In the April 2021 issue of the Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D. talks about the NIH UNITE program's goal to end structural racism in biomedical research.
… Laboratory Tuuli Lappalainen, Ph.D., New York Genome Center Moderator: Paul Liu, M.D., Ph.D., NHGRI … A monthly … the institute and the field of genomics. …  Last month, NIH Director Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D, announced expansive …  NHGRI’s Scientific Director and Director of the NHGRI’s Intramural Research Program, Dan Kastner, M.D., Ph.D., has …
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NIH-funded researchers completed the PanCancer Atlas from over 10,000 tumors representing 33 types of cancer.
… of more than a decade of groundbreaking work," said NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. "This analysis … at NCI. The project focused not only on cancer genome sequencing, but also on different types of data analyses, … visit the NCI website at cancer.gov or call NCI's Contact Center (formerly known as the Cancer Information Service) at …