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A listing of news releases from other National Institutes of Health (NIH) institutes and centers, academic and non-profit institutions, and scientists or scientific societies related to NHGRI-funded work.
2010
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March 18, 2010 :NIH Announces Genetic Testing Registry 
From the National Institutes of Health: The National Institutes of Health announces that it is creating a public database that researchers, consumers, health care providers, and others can search for information submitted voluntarily by genetic test providers. The Genetic Testing Registry (GTR) aims to enhance access to information about the availability, validity and usefulness of genetic tests. -
March 18, 2010 :Genome of the Fresh Water Polyp Hydra Sequenced
From Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich: The genome of the fresh water polyp Hydra, which has played a key role as a model organism in modern evolutionary and developmental biology, has been sequenced by an international consortium of American, German, Austrian and Japanese scientists. The genome sequence provides a glimpse into the common evolutionary history of animals and humans. Scientists at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich, and universities in Kiel, Heidelberg, Vienna and Innsbruck contributed to the project, which was published online in Nature on March 14, 2010. NHGRI helped fund the research. -
March 17, 2010 :Dogs Likely Originated in the Middle East, New Genetic Data Indicate
From the University of California at Los Angeles: Dogs likely originated in the Middle East, not Asia or Europe, according to a new genetic analysis by an international team of scientists led by UCLA biologists. The research, funded by the National Science Foundation and the Searle Scholars Program, appeared March 17 in the advance online edition of the journal Nature. Among the co-authors on the Nature paper are a group of researchers from the National Human Genome Research Institute led by Senior Investigator Elaine Ostrander, Ph.D. -
February 25, 2010 :Whole Genome Analysis Solves Medical Mystery in One Family, Comes Nearer to Routine Use
From the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke: For the first time, researchers use whole genome sequencing to achieve a molecular diagnosis in a family with a genetic disorder. The results suggest that in the near future, genome sequencing could become a routine part of medical care, both to diagnose rare disorders and help estimate the risk of common disorders. The effort was led by investigators at Baylor College of Medicine Houston, Texas, and funded in part by NHGRI. -
February 25, 2010 :Emerging Science, Tech Advances Highlight New NIH Common Fund Programs
From the National Institutes of Health: Programs to create a new center for the study of stem cells and to increase capacity to deal with global health issues were among seven scientific initiatives announced today by NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. The seven research programs are supported through the NIH Common Fund, which encourages collaborative research programs across the NIH institutes and centers, or ICs, to accomplish work that no single IC could do alone. The programs are all scheduled to begin during fiscal year 2010. NHGRI will be co-administering some of the projects. -
February 24, 2010 :Surgeon General with Microsoft HealthVault Expands Consumer Benefits for the My Family Health Portrait Offering
From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: The U.S. Surgeon General Regina M. Benjamin announce a collaboration with Microsoft HealthVault that will provide new features and expand access to My Family Health Portrait, a free Internet-based tool for organizing family health history. The National Human Genome Research Institute created the original version of the tool and was among the federal agencies that supported its upgrade. -
February 23, 2010 :Aphid's Genome Reflects Its Reproductive, Symbiotic Lifestyle
From Baylor College of Medicine: The genome of the pea aphid, has been sequenced by the International Aphid Genomics Consortium. Dr. Stephen Richards, assistant professor in the Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center is the leader of the sequencing effort. The consortium released the 464 megabase draft genome of the pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum) in the current issue of PLoS Biology. The aphid sequencing was funded by NHGRI. -
February 21, 2010 :From Uncharted Region of Human Genome, Clues Emerge About Origins of Coronary Artery Disease
From the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Researchers have figured out how a mysterious DNA region previously tied to heart disease may exert its effect, opening the door to new prevention and treatment strategies. The study, partly funded by NIH's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and National Human Genome Research Institute, appeared in the advance online edition of Nature on Feb. 21, 2010. -
February 18, 2010 :Scientists Map Genetic Regulatory Elements for the Heart
From the National Institutes of Health: Scientists devise a new computational model that can be used to reveal genetic regulatory elements responsible for development of the human heart and maintenance of its function. The research, conducted by scientists at the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and the University of Chicago, is published in the March 2010 issue of Genome Research and is available online. The University of Chicago research was co-funded by NHLBI and the National Human Genome Research Institute at NIH. -
February 2, 2010 :Scientists Map Out Regulatory Regions of Genome, Hot Spots for Diabetes Genes
From the University of North Carolina School of Medicine: Together with colleagues in Barcelona, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have generated a complete map of the areas of the genome that control which genes are "turned on" or "off." The research, published online Jan. 31, 2010, in the journal Nature Genetics, presents the first high-resolution atlas of these regulatory elements in the most studied cell type for treatment and prevention of type II diabetes. The discovery, made in pancreatic islet cells, opens new avenues for understanding the genetic basis of type 2 diabetes and other common illnesses. The research was funded by NHGRI as part of its ENCODE project. -
February 1, 2010 :Benefits Outweigh Risks Associated with Newborn Screening for Disorder
From the University of Michigan: Newborn screening for a metabolic disorder could lead to false positives — adding stress to parents, costing money and possibly subjecting a baby to unnecessary follow-up treatment and dietary restrictions. But the benefits of diagnosing these children early and preventing the risk of mental retardation, disability or death outweigh the costs of a false positive, according to new U-M research published in the February issue of the journal Pediatrics. Funding for this study was provided by the National Human Genome Research Institute, Division of Ethical, Legal and Social Implications. -
January 20, 2010 :New Gene Discovered for Recessive Form of Brittle Bone Disease
From the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development: Researchers at the National Institutes of Health and other institutions discover the third in a sequence of genes that accounts for previously unexplained forms of osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), a genetic condition that weakens bones, results in frequent fractures and is sometimes fatal. Researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute also took part in the study. -
January 15, 2010 :Parasitic Wasps' Newly Sequenced Genomes Reveal New Avenues for Pest Control, Provides Insights into Evolution, Genetics
From the University of Rochester: Parasitic wasps kill pest insects, but their existence is largely unknown to the public. Now, scientists led by John H. Werren, professor of biology at the University of Rochester, and Stephen Richards at the Genome Sequencing Center at the Baylor College of Medicine have sequenced the genomes of three parasitoid wasp species, revealing many features that could be useful to pest control and medicine, and to enhance our understanding of genetics and evolution. NHGRI helped fund the research. The study appears in the January 15 issue of Science. -
January 13, 2010 :Chimp and Human Y Chromosomes Evolving Faster Than Expected
From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: By conducting the first comprehensive interspecies comparison of Y chromosomes, Whitehead Institute researchers find considerable differences in the genetic sequences of the human and chimpanzee Ys — an indication that these chromosomes have evolved more quickly than the rest of their respective genomes over the 6 million years since they emerged from a common ancestor. The findings are published online this week in the journal Nature. NHGRI provided support for this work. -
January 7, 2010 :Gene Mutations Reveal Potential New Targets for Treating a Type of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
From the National Cancer Institute: Researchers discover genetic mutations that may contribute to the development of an aggressive form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. These findings provide insight into a mechanism that cancer cells may use to survive, thus identifying potential new targets for treatment of the disease. The study conducted by researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the National Human Genome Research Institute, components of the National Institutes of Health, and colleagues appeared Jan. 7, 2010, in Nature.
Last Updated: March 18, 2010
