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Appropriate use of population descriptors in research is a critical scientific issue that is important for advancing genomic science and improving healthcare across human populations.
… often hides underlying biological, environmental or social factors that may contribute to health and disease. In … attention to the full spectrum of potential contributing factors, including genomic, biological or clinical traits; … perceived physical appearance (such as skin color), social factors and cultural backgrounds. 4 Race has been used to …
The Genomics Landscape
In the July 2023 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green describes the evolution of the NHGRI Intramural Research program over the last three decades talks about its future in conducting truly exceptional basic, translational, and clinical genomics research.
… Multifactorial profiling of epigenetic landscapes at single-cell resolution using … aiming to understand traits informed by many genetic factors and disease development.  This research was funded …
Diversity Center
Tuskegee University establishes the Carver Genomic Research Center.
… the key Xenobiotic alterations by transcriptomics, epigenetic and metabolomic profiling in Urothelial Carcinoma … Genomic study to characterize the role of genetic and epigenetic factors affecting the tumor phenotype of triple negative …
Staff
Dr. Meeks is a Special Volunteer at the Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health.
… which she studies the interrelationships between lifestyle factors, cytokines, genetic variants, and epigenetic biomarkers in type 2 diabetes among …
News Release
NHGRI researchers and colleagues are calling for health disparities research that focuses on the microbiome.
… be a two-way street, with the biological and environmental factors influencing each other, according to the perspective … the socioeconomic, psychosocial, cultural and behavioral factors in people of diverse ancestry, according to the … microbiome interacts with social and environmental factors," said Vence L. Bonham, Jr., J.D., perspective …
News Release
NIH awards more than $64 million to for a database of human cellular responses called the Library of Integrated Network-based Cellular Signatures or LINCS.
… response to perturbing agents - such as drugs and genetic factors - that are potentially disruptive to cells. LINCS … cellular model systems. Cellular phosphor-signaling and epigenetic systems are involved in a growing number of …
Event
The Advances in Genomic Technology Development (AGTD) 2022 Annual Meeting was hosted by the Technology Development Coordinating Center (TDCC) from July 12-14, 2022 at The Jackson Laboratory (Farmington, CT).
… for Highly Parallel Analysis of Variation in Transcription Factors and their DNA Binding Sites Shubham Khetan, … in situ Method to Study the Combinatorial Code of Epigenetic Marks in Single Cells Yanbo Chen Yale University … discussed genomic technologies that include nanopore and epigenetic sequencing as well as multi-omic analyses of …
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Dr. Susan Persky is an associate investigator in the Social and Behavioral Research Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute.
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… social differences between patients and providers. These factors are of particular importance when communicating about … She also explores how beliefs about genetic causal factors in health conditions influence health identity, … when communicating to parents about their child’s risk factors, a gene-environment interaction approach may be …
15 Ways Genomics Influences Our World
We are learning how our genomes serve as blueprints for life.
The Genomics Landscape
In the December 2024 issue of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green highlights the keynote speaker at the institute's annual symposium, Kate Rubins, a biologist and NASA astronaut who was the first person to sequence DNA in space.
… Examining epigenetic aging in the post-mortem brain in attention … people with ADHD, the researchers found no differences in epigenetic aging in the brains between people with and …