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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 …
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
Over the last 20 years, three families have been unknowingly linked to one another by an unknown illness. Researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and other organizations have now identified the cause of the illness, a new disease called CRIA syndrome. The results of their work were published on Dec. 11 in the journal Nature.
… Mutations in the RIPK1 gene responsible for CRIA syndrome Over the last … linked by an unknown illness. Researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health, and other organizations … Daniel Kastner, M.D., Ph.D., a pioneer in the field of autoinflammatory diseases, and his team discovered CRIA, …
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 …
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 …
Media Availability
The Cancer Genome Atlas identified molecular subtypes to help clinicians determine which tumors are more aggressive and which will respond to treatment.
… Media Availability A comprehensive analysis of the genomes of nearly 500 papillary thyroid carcinomas (PTC) - the most common form of thyroid cancer - has provided new insights into the roles … WHAT: Investigators with The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Research Network identified new molecular …