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For Health Professionals
Archives of ISCC-PEG webinars, articles, case studies and more.
… 20, 2017) Dr. Anneke Seller and Dr. Michelle Bishop, Health Education's Genomics Education Programmes  (May 17, … ISCC-PEG webinars, articles, case studies and more. … For Health Professionals …
For Health Professionals
ISCC-PEG working groups that are no longer active. Information is kept for historical purposes.
… active. Information is kept for historical purposes. … For Health Professionals …
For Health Professionals
The ISCC-PEG Pharmacogenomics (PGx) Project Group has developed peer-reviewed online education for healthcare practitioners to advance pharmacogenomics in clinical practice.
… to advance pharmacogenomics in clinical practice. … For Health Professionals …
15 Ways Genomics Influences Our World
Genomics is revolutionizing health assessments before birth.
… Genomics is revolutionizing health assessments before birth. … Did you know that DNA … NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, said in 2017 that  "just like … not realize that it can also reveal things about their own health. That's what happened to Marin Mejia , who had NIPT …
News Release
NIH grants aim to gauge if genomics can be used to help diagnose diabetes, manage heart disease and guide cancer clinicians to the most effective drugs.
… Steven Benowitz … New National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants aim to gauge if genomics can be used to … seek to show how using genomic information can impact health and, in particular, how it can be applied in varied … to show that adding genomic information into electronic health records can guide drug prescribing and treatment …
News Release
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 … Risk Tool among Low-Income African Americans . Public Health Genomics , 2021. DOI: 10.1159/000517309. Koehly LM , … breast cancer, and colorectal cancer . BMC Public Health,  15: 1120, 2015. DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-2483-x. … …
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 …
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.
… … Dr. Denny’s research interests include use of electronic health records (EHRs) and genomics data from large-scale … the Chief Executive Officer of the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program. … Dr. Denny’s laboratory … With this mission in mind, those in the Precision Health Informatics Section primarily repurpose health records …
Fact Sheet
Diversity among genomics research participants is essential for improving the health of everyone.
… can identify genomic variants associated with various health outcomes at the individual and population levels. This … better understand how genomics can be used to improve the health and wellbeing of all people. … Based on work completed … All of Us Research Program is working to build a diverse health resource by collecting genome-related data and other …