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Genomics is the study of all of a person's genes (the genome), including interactions of those genes with each other and with the person's environment.
… Genomics is the study of all of a person's genes (the genome), including interactions of those genes with each … usual processes and lead to a disease such as cancer.  … Sequencing simply means determining the exact order of the …
News Release
Small businesses with NHGRI grants were instrumental in contributing to the completion of the human genome sequence, redefining the future of genomics.
… grants were instrumental in contributing to the completion of the human genome sequence, redefining the future of genomics. … When … development ecosystem. Until recently, almost all genome sequencing methods required researchers to extract DNA from a …
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Dr. Mullikin was the former director of the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC).
… recognition, having earned a Ph.D. from Delft University of Technology, Netherlands. Dr. Mullikin first began to apply … skills to the genomics field in 1997, just as the Human Genome Project was scaling up. He has been involved in many … to analyze large data sets generated by systematic DNA sequencing projects. A highly skilled computational …
Clinical Research
The CLINSEQ® Study seeks to learn about the role that your genes play in your health.
… your health. We do this by getting a DNA sample from you, sequencing most or all of your genes, and comparing that to what we know about your … on its head. Trans-NIH Study Explores Medical Role for Genome Sequencing 2007: Patients with Cardiovascular Disease …
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A team of NIH-funded researchers have generated the first complete chromosome sequences from non-human primates.
… species diversity and insights into evolution. …  A team of researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health … Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of NIH, and an author … has only become possible in recent years due to new DNA sequencing technologies and analysis methods. These …
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Cloning is the process of making identical copies of an organism, cell, or DNA sequence.
… Cloning … Cloning is the process of making identical copies of an organism, cell, or DNA sequence. … DNA Sequence, … methods to make identical, or virtually identical, copies of an organism, cell or DNA sequence. The phrase “molecular …
The Genomics Landscape
In the October 1, 2020 edition of The Genomics Landscape, Dr. Eric Green reflects on the last 30 years since the launch of the Human Genome Project.
… Green, M.D., Ph.D. … Thirty years ago, today, the Human Genome Project (HGP) officially launched. I was there on the … then a postdoctoral research fellow in the laboratory of genomics pioneer Maynard Olson at Washington University … These would be steppingstones to the signature goal of sequencing the entire human genome. Previous work had started …
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Ancestry-informative markers are sets of polymorphisms for a DNA sequence found in different frequencies between populations from different geographical regions.
… Markers … Ancestry-informative markers are sets of polymorphisms for a DNA sequence found in different … from different geographical regions. … Ancestry, Genome, Family Health History, Genotype, DNA Sequence … Ancestry-informative markers are sets of polymorphisms for a particular DNA sequence that appear in …
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NHGRI meeting focused on research that rapidly advances best practices for the implementation of genomic sequence data into clinical care.
… The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) sponsored the meeting eMERGE & CSER: The Convergence of Genomics and Medicine at the Bethesda Hyatt in Bethesda, … necessary to develop best practices for the implementation of genomic sequence data into clinical care, as well as …
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Gene amplification is an increase in the number of copies of a gene sequence.
… … Gene amplification is an increase in the number of copies of a gene sequence. … DNA Sequence, Cancer, PCR, Polymerase … to an increase in the number of copies of a gene in a genome. Cancer cells, for example, sometimes produce multiple …