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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.
… integration of environmental exposures, omics, and childhood NAFLD (LEON) Study Disease Study Site** … Multi-Omics at the Intersections of Environment, Diabetes, and Kidney Disease: A Multi-Omics for Health and Disease Study Site Disease Study Site** Krzysztof …
Educational Resources
A gene pool is the total genetic diversity found within a population or a species.
… A gene pool is the total genetic diversity found within a population or a species. … Genetic Diversity, Genes, Extinction, Population Genetics … all the genes (including alleles) present in a reproducing population or species. A large gene pool has extensive genomic diversity and is better able to withstand environmental challenges. …
The Genomics Landscape
In the April 7, 2022 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., highlights the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium's publishing of a collection of papers that reported the first truly complete sequence of the human genome.
… of spring brings some good budgetary news for NIH and NHGRI. On March 11, the U.S. Congress passed a Fiscal … Year 2022 budget, we can now move forward with funding and conducting the planned 2022 research activities. In a … additional internal reorganization, NHGRI’s Communications and Public Liaison Branch (CPLB) was recently renamed the …
News Release
NIH Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health is participating in the H3Africa Consortium's effort to develop an African-specific genotyping array.
… Researchers have made a good start in identifying and understanding genetic mutations that have evolved over … can increase the risk of other diseases in Africans and people of African descent. Mutations in the gene APOL1 , … that causes African sleeping sickness, but today Africans and people of African ancestry with these genetic mutations …
The Genomics Landscape
In the October 1, 2020 edition of The Genomics Landscape, Dr. Eric Green reflects on the last 30 years since the launch of the Human Genome Project.
… then a postdoctoral research fellow in the laboratory of genomics pioneer Maynard Olson at Washington University … with the Human Genome Project successfully completed and genomics maturing into a well-respected discipline. I am so … and accomplishments from the institute and the field of genomics. …
Health
Genomic medicine involves using genomic information as part of clinical care and the health outcomes and policy implications of that clinical use.
… medicine is an emerging medical discipline that involves using genomic information about an individual as part of … care (e.g. for diagnostic or therapeutic decision-making) and the health outcomes and policy implications of that clinical use. Already, … has called for the adoption of 'precision medicine,' where genomics, epigenomics, environmental exposure, and other data …
News Release
African scientists and collaborators gathered in Pointe aux Piments in Mauritius for the 9th Human Health and Heredity in Africa Consortium Meeting.
… In October, African scientists and collaborators gathered in Pointe aux Piments in Mauritius for the 9th Human Health and Heredity in Africa ( H3Africa ) Consortium Meeting. … the great need for communication and understanding between genomics academic community, the public, policy-makers, …
MINC
Each clinical setting is unique. Strategies that will work in your environment can be used to design your interventions based on suggested options from the Champions.
… to increase nursing awareness, competency, integration and utilization of genomic information in nursing healthcare delivery are recommended. Because assets and needs are so unique to each setting, not all strategies … involved in the Method for Introducing a New Competency: Genomics (MINC) into Nursing Practice study. …
Policies and Guidance
​A site map listing all pages on genome.gov, the official website of the National Human Genome Research Institute.
… NHGRI Website, NIH Website, Genomics Website, Genetics Website … Policies and Guidance …
Clinical Research
MINI Section invites caregivers of children with mitochondrial disease to participate in a survey about the use of immune therapies in children with mitochondrial disease.
… collaboration with the UMDF, the NIH Metabolism, Infection and Immunity (MINI) Section invites caregivers of children … with mitochondrial disease receive immune therapies and some do not. The purpose of this study is to understand … are in the community, why some people are receiving them and how they may or may not benefit their disease. We ask …