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The Social and Behavioral Research Branch conducts research to apply genomic discoveries to improve health and clinical care.
… focuses on a spectrum of disorders from those that have a major public health impact to rare genetic conditions with … impacts the flow of information and support across complex social systems. Health disparities We conduct …
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NHGRI researchers have generated the largest catalog of genetic variants associated with physical traits for domesticated dog breeds.
… breeds. The sheer number of dog breeds points toward the major role played by genetics in shaping such variation in …
Fact Sheets
Genome-wide association studies involve scanning markers across the genomes of many people to find genetic variations associated with a particular disease​.
… in finding genetic variations that contribute to common, complex diseases, such as asthma, cancer, diabetes, heart … 2006. The initial studies include bipolar disorder, major depression, kidney disease in type 1 diabetes, … National Institute of General Medical Sciences, also are major contributors to the PharmacoGenetics Research Network. …
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Laura Koehly, Ph.D., has been named chief of NHGRI's Social and Behavioral Research Branch.
… … SBRB research includes a focus on disorders that have major public health impact such as attention deficit … give rise to a variety of explanations. She switched her major and studied statistics while maintaining an interest in …
Staff
Dr. Joshua Denny is the head of the NHGRI Precision Health Informatics Section and Chief Executive Officer of the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program.
… reports and tests, and medication records, are the major source of data for the laboratory. Over the years, … project for those in Dr. Denny’s group is to analyze complex datasets incorporating hundreds of thousands of … and up to millions of subjects. Their work accounts for complex interactions between a highly dimensional feature …
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Researchers developed a technique that will aid in a more accurate reconstruction of human genomes.
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Experts discussed the gaps, challenges and opportunities in genomics at Genomic Medicine Meeting VIII: NHGRI's Genomic Medicine Portfolio, sponsored by NHGRI.
… what challenging clinical questions are being faced." A major challenge confronting genomic medicine centers is how …
Staff
Dr. Mullikin was the former director of the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC).
… annotation and single nucleotide polymorphism of the major histocompatibility complex in the domestic cat. PLoS ONE, 3:e2674, 2008. [ …
The Genomics Landscape
In the June 2019 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green details the legacy of the Human Microbiome Project as it reaches completion.
… guidance from Institutes across NIH, with NHGRI playing a major leadership role. This 10-year, $215-million initiative … The HMP was designed to increase our understanding of the complex and abundant microbial communities of the human body … of each body site is, indeed, quite distinct. The major findings of this first phase of HMP were published in …
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Participation in genomics research is essential for improving the health of everyone.
… cystic fibrosis), but this might not be the case for more complex diseases (e.g., coronary artery disease, obesity, … research. … The code embedded within the human genome is complex, and genomics research has only scratched the surface …