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CMG investigators have made significant inroads in discovering genes underlying Mendelian conditions and have uncovered 470 new, previously unknown conditions.
… Human Genome Research Institute and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute launched the Centers for Mendelian …
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Dr. Douglas Stewart is an associate investigator in NHGRI's Center for Precision Health Research.
… his work is to improve disorder-specific clinical care and cancer risk prediction, while translating insights garnered … blastoma, a rare childhood malignancy of the lung that arises during fetal lung development, as well as nephroblastoma, neuroblastoma …
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Karen Surabian is a Senior Licensing and Patenting Manager in the NHGRI Technology Transfer Office (TTO).
… 2023. Prior to that she was at the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), Office of Technology … she was a technology transfer specialist at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Technology Transfer Center (TTC) (Frederick Unit) as a Cancer Research Training Award (CRTA) fellow. While …
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Dr. Iman Martin is a program director in NHGRI's Division of Genomic Medicine.
… has been stationed at NIH previously at the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute and the National Cancer Institute. She is passionate about the NHGRI mission, …
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NHGRI will fund a set of genome sequencing and analysis centers whose research will focus on understanding the genomic bases of common and rare human diseases.
… and program outreach. In addition, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) will contribute to both the … among and between populations across the world, and The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), an NHGRI partnership with the … of the National Institutes of Health, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) plans, conducts, and …
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NIH researchers have created a data resource show how differences in an individual's genome can affect gene activity and contribute to disease.
… tissues, and can predispose people to diseases such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes. "GTEx was designed to … specific variants influence the biological function of the lung, kidney and other organs." "Projects supported by the … from the nine most available tissue types: fat, heart, lung, skeletal muscle, skin, thyroid, blood, and tibial …
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Researchers funded by NIH have completed a detailed atlas documenting stretches of human DNA that influence gene expression.
… expression in the liver might be different than in the lung or heart, for example, and how those differences relate … than 53 different tissue types (including brain, liver and lung) from autopsy, organ donation and tissue transplant … Fund and administered by NHGRI, NIMH and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), all part of NIH. As one example of …
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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.
… Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), both part of NIH, … transcription regulator, heat shock factor 1 (HSF1), in cancer. Another team reported that the LINCS approach of … diagnosis, and treatment of heart, blood vessel, lung, and blood diseases; and sleep disorders. The institute …
Educational Resources
In biology, an organ (from the Latin "organum" meaning an instrument or tool) is a collection of tissues that structurally form a functional unit specialized to perform a particular function.
Clinical Research
The CLINSEQ® Study seeks to learn about the role that your genes play in your health.
… a variety of conditions, including heart disease, breast cancer, and hearing loss. … Our goal is to enroll 1500 … Preliminary validation of a consumer-oriented colorectal cancer risk assessment tool compatible with the US Surgeon …