The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) are collaborating on a new initiative, developmental Genotype-Tissue Expression (dGTEx), to catalog and analyze transcriptional profiles from a wide variety of tissues from the pediatric period, including neonates through adolescents, in a post-mortem setting.
dGTEx Locations

The Biospecimen Procurement Centers (BPC) are:
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
- Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
- Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, St. Petersburg, FL
- National Disease Research Interchange, Philadelphia, PA
- University of Maryland Brain and Tissue Bank, Baltimore, MD
- University of Rochester Medical Center Rochester, NY
- Dell Children's Medical Center at University of Texas, Austin, Austin, TX
- University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS
- University of Louisville School of Medicine - Norton Children's Hospital, Louisville, KY
- Nicklaus Children's Hospital, Miami, FL
The Laboratory, Data Analysis and Coordinating Centers (LDACC) are:
- New York Genome Center New York, NY
- Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA
- Broad Institute, Inc. Cambridge, MA
- Stanford University Stanford, CA
- Harvard Medical School / Harvard University, Boston, MA
- Yale University New Haven, CT
- Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX
Related Projects
Contacts
Program Directors

Jyoti G. Dayal, M.S.
- Program Director
- Division of Genomic Medicine

Alexander Arguello, Ph.D.
- Program Director
- Division of Genome Sciences

John Ilekis, Ph.D.
- Program Director, Maternal & Fetal Molecular Biology and Genetics
- Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Scientific Program Analysts

Jake Baroch, B.S.
- Scientific Program Analyst
- Division of Genome Sciences
Last updated: January 24, 2023