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National Advisory Committee for Human Genome Research

Director's Report Related Documents: September 2006 Meeting

News Releases and Related Papers

• September 7, 2006: NIH Launches Knockout Mouse Project
  
  
• September 7, 2006: Statement from the National Institutes of Health On Cancer Genetics Findings at Johns Hopkins University
  
  
• The Consensus Coding Sequences of Human Breast and Colorectal Cancers
  Sciencexpress
  
  
• August 30, 2006: NIH Seeks Input on Proposed Repository for Genetic Information
  
  
• August 22, 2006: NHGRI Awards $54 Million to Three Centers of Excellence in Genomic Science
  
  
• August 15,2006: New Findings Offer More Complete View Of Breast Cancer Gene Mutations in U.S. Population
  
  
  • Prevalence and Predictors of BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutations in a Population-Based Study of Breast Cancer in White and Black American Women Ages 35 to 64 Years
    Journal of Cancer Research, Dr. Elaine A. Ostrander, et al
    
    
• July 24, 2006: New Paradigm Will Help Identify Leads for Drug Discovery
  
  
  • Quantitative high-throughput screening: A titration-based approach that efficiently identifies biological activities in large chemical libraries
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. James Inglese, Dr. Christopher P. Austin, et al
    
    
  • More Precise Method For Rapidly Screening Chemical Compounds Will Help Identify Leads For Drug Discovery
    ScienceDaily
    
    

• July 19, 2006: NHGRI Announces Latest Sequencing Targets
  
  
• July 16, 2006: Researchers Uncover Genetic Clues to a Common Form of Age-Related Dementia
  
  
  • Glucocerebrosidase mutations are an important risk factor for Lewy body disorders
    Neurology, Dr. Ellen Sidransky, et al
    
    
• June 12, 2006: NIH Launches Effort to Place More Knockout Mice in Public Repositories
  
  
• June 7, 2006: NIH Expands Initiative to Encourage Bench-to-Bedside Research
  
  

Recent Articles and Items of Interest

• Clonal Origin and Evolution of a Transmissible Cancer
  Cell, Dr. Claudio Murgia, et al
  
  
• The Singular History of a Canine Transmissible Tumor
  Cell, Dr. Bridgett M. vonHoldt and Dr. Elaine A. Ostrander
  
  
• An RNA gene expressed during cortical development evolved rapidly in humans
  Nature, Dr. Katherine A. Pollard, et al
  
  
• Enhancement of capillary leakage and restoration of lymphocyte egress by a chiral S1P₁ antagonist invivo
  Nature Chemical Biology, Dr. M. Germana Sanna, et al, Molecular Libraries Screening Centers Network
  
  
• Virtual and biomolecular screening converge ona selective agonist for GPR30
  Nature Chemical Biology, Dr. Cristian G. Bologa, et al, Molecular Libraries Screening Centers Network
  
  
• Gene May Be Key To Brain Evolution
  The Washington Post
  
  
• Items of Interest from Select Publications
  
  
• Recent Activities of The American College of Medical Genetics

Requests for Applications (RFA) and Notices (NOT)

• RFA-HG-07-029: Technology Development for the Comprehensive Determination of Functional Elements in Eukaryotic Genomes (R01)
• RFA-HG-07-028: Technology Development for the Comprehensive Determination of Functional Elements in Eukaryotic Genomes (R21)
• NOT-OD-06-094: Request for Information (RFI): Proposed Policy for Sharing of Data obtained in NIH supported or conducted Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS)

Sequencing Status Update

• Sequencing Table
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