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On October 10, 2024, NHGRI hosted a pre-application webinar for the Population Genomic Screening in Primary Care NOFOs. The purpose of these NOFOs is to implement and evaluate a pilot program of population genomic screening for common, actionable genomic conditions in a primary care setting.
… Welcome Overview of the Population Genomic Screening Discussion … webinar for the Population Genomic Screening in Primary Care NOFOs: RFA-HG-24-021 , RFA-HG-24-022 , and RFA-HG-24-023 . The purpose of these NOFOs is to implement and evaluate a pilot program … Population Genomic Screening in Primary Care Pre-Application Webinar …
News Release
Stomach cancers fall into four distinct molecular subtypes researchers with The Cancer Genome Atlas Network have found.
… molecular subtypes researchers with The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Network have found. In the study, published online July 23, 2014, in Nature , the scientists report that this discovery could … . Reference: The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network. Comprehensive Molecular …
Event
On November 8-9, 2023, NHGRI sponsored its 15th Genomic Medicine meeting, Genomic Medicine XV: Genomics and Population Screening, in Bethesda MD.
… On November 8-9, 2023, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) sponsored its 15th … Genomic Medicine XV: Genomics and Population Screening, in Bethesda MD. This meeting discussed the current state of population genomic screening in the U.S., as well as …
Human Genome Project
Record and submit a short video, capturing your thoughts/concerns/excitement about the launch of the Human Genome Project.
… October 1, 2020, marks the 30th anniversary of the launch of the Human Genome Project. NHGRI would like you to help us commemorate and celebrate this occasion in an unconventional way: by pulling out your phone and … your thought process, consider finishing one or more of the following prompts: When I first heard of the ambitious …
Research Funding
The Multi-Omics for Health and Disease Consortium aims to advance the application of multi-omic technologies to study health and disease in ancestrally diverse populations.
… David Conti, Alaina Vidmar, Tanya Alderete University of Southern California Longitudinal integration of environmental exposures, omics, and childhood NAFLD (LEON) … of California, San Francisco EXposomic Profiling in Airway disease to uNravel Determinants of disease in …
News Release
Investigators with The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network have identified new potential therapeutic targets for a major form of bladder cancer.
… Investigators with The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Research Network have identified new potential therapeutic targets for a major form of bladder cancer, including important genes and pathways that are disrupted in the disease. They also discovered that, at the molecular …
15 Ways Genomics Influences Our World
​Genomics is helping us understand what makes each of us different and what makes us the same.
… Genomics is helping us understand what makes each of us different and what makes us the same. … level your genome is 99.9 percent the same as all of the humans around you - but in that 0.1 percent difference … entirely define you. Well before the completion of the Human Genome Project, researchers began developing tools to …
News Release
In a large-scale study of people from diverse ancestries, researchers narrowed down the number of genomic variants that are strongly associated with blood lipid levels and generated a polygenic risk score to predict elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels, a major risk factor for heart disease.
… Study of millions of people from diverse ancestral groups substantially improves identification of genomic variants associated with blood lipid levels. … In a large-scale study of people from diverse ancestries, researchers narrowed down … The authors include researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National …
Policy Issues
NHGRI wants to ensure that all populations benefit from the advances of genomics research.
… Genomics research is shaping the future of medicine. For these advances of this research to benefit everyone more equally and improve health equity, it is important that the diversity of the study participants reflect the diversity of the … to ensure that all populations benefit from the advances of genomics research, and have the opportunity to participate …
News Release
The TCGA network describes uterine and bile duct cancer.
… The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), a program co-funded by the National Cancer … and NHGRI, has greatly improved our understanding of the molecular signatures underlying different cancers - … by African and European Ancestry in The Cancer Genome Atlas Large data set brings precision to breast cancer …