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Genomicists and clinicians are beginning to offer patients genetic testing for a list of treatable diseases apart from the one that brought them into the clinic.
… study that he had joined at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It was expanding to include more people of … ® study, which looks at the role that genes play in health by sequencing most of a person's genes and searching for variants that could cause health problems. At the NIH Clinical Center, researchers took …
Research at NHGRI
Families Sharing Health Assessment and Risk Evaluation (SHARE) helps you and your family learn how your family health history affects your risk for diseases.
… members’ risk for these diseases based on their family health history. After you finish a worksheet, share the … a community-based genomic education program . BMC Public Health 25, 805 (2025). de la Haye K, Whitted C, Koehly LM . … Risk Tool among Low-Income African Americans . Public Health Genomics , 2021. DOI: 10.1159/000517309. Koehly LM , …
For Patients and Families
Neglected diseases are conditions that inflict severe health burdens on the world's poorest people.
… Neglected diseases are conditions that inflict severe health burdens on the world's poorest people and are often … … Neglected diseases are conditions that inflict severe health burdens on the world's poorest people. Many of these … migrates to the central nervous system, causing seizures, mental disorders and, ultimately, death. As many as 70,000 …
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NHGRI workshop seeking scientific perspectives for relating genomic variation to human phenotype.
… and Interpretation of Variation Associated with Human Health and Disease Panel: Barbara Stranger Anshul Kundaje … and understand the effects of those variants on human health and disease. We seek recommendations for projects, … Identification, Association, and Function in Human Health and Disease … NHGRI workshop seeking scientific …
Research at NHGRI
A list of publications led by or in collaboration with the Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health.
… with the Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health (CRGGH) since 2008. In addition to the citations … risk information in African cleft research. BMC Public Health . 24(1):507. 2024. [ PubMed ]  Chen L, Tian R, Chen G … common African origins to understand human evolution and health. Cell Genom . 3(3):100278. 2023. [ PubMed ]  Meeks …
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Dr. Meeks is a Special Volunteer at the Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health.
… at the Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health (CRGGH). She earned a Bachelor of Science (2010) and Master of Science (2012) in Nutrition & Health from Wageningen University and a Ph.D. in Public Health Epidemiology (2017) from the University of Amsterdam, …
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Dr. Gouveia is a research fellow in the Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health.
… training in genetic epidemiology at the Brazilian Health Institute (Fiocruz-Brazil) and in genomics and … in Dr. Rotimi’s Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health (CRGGH) at the NHGRI. Throughout his career, he has … genetics, epidemiology, genomics, bioinformatics, and health disparities. He has held leadership roles in large …
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Virtual reality is a rapidly expanding area of tech and gaming and important in medicine and health.
… Reddit "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) with National Institutes of Health researchers who use VR to study a host of research … also playing important roles in the arenas of medicine and health - and for good reason! The ability to simulate … Reddit "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) with National Institutes of Health researchers who use VR to study a host of research …
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Dr. Francis Collins was a senior investigator in Center for Precision Health Research.
… is the former director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). As the longest serving director of NIH — … Because most progeria patients are in extremely fragile health, there are few opportunities to conduct human trials … with researchers at the Finnish National Public Health Institute, the University of Michigan, the University …
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Dr. Peter McGuire is an investigator in NHGRI's Center for Precision Health Research.
… In 2010, Dr. McGuire moved to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to join the Physician Scientist Development … a clinical protocol in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center, called the NIH MINI Study: … McGuire is an investigator in NHGRI's Center for Precision Health Research. … Peter McGuire, Physicial Scientist …