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The Genomics Landscape
In the March 2019 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green details ClinGen, the first FDA-recognized Public Human Genetic Variant Database.
… Cancer Drug Reduces Pain, Improves Symptoms in People with Proteus Syndrome More Progress Toward Gene Editing for Kids with …
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Carlos Ferreira, M.D., staff clinician in NHGRI's Metabolic Medicine Branch, knows the catalogue of rare skeletal disorders well. With hundreds of known rare bone disorders and more to be discovered, Dr. Ferreira breaks down the challenges of skeletal genomics.
… group was the first to uncover the cause of Saul-Wilson syndrome and characterize the disorder. What are some key … Ferreira: We found that all patients with Saul-Wilson syndrome have the same genomic changes and similar clinical … heart. One that he knows particularly well is Saul-Wilson syndrome, a condition so rare that only four patients …
News Release
Cari Young and Julie Nadel join NHGRI as public policy and education fellows.
… Genetics Branch, where she studied the genetic origins of Proteus syndrome. "Being at NIH was a dream," she said. "I was …
News Release
NHGRI researchers will present four platform talks and 55 posters to highlight the institute's diverse portfolio at the 65th annual meeting of ASHG.
… peripheral blood of African Americans related to metabolic syndrome and abdominal obesity. (Health Services Research) … J. Adams: Novel SOX10 variant causing Waardenburg syndrome without cutaneous pigmentary changes. (Clinical … *2803F. Marjorie Lindhurst: Ubiquitous expression of the Proteus mutation Akt1 c. 49G>A, p. Glu17Lys causes …
Research Funding
The $1,000 Genome Program was a coordinated effort to support the development of technologies to dramatically reduce the cost of DNA sequencing, a move aimed at broadening the applications of genomic information in medical research and health care.
… challenge  December 2013  Genome Advance of the Month - Proteus: Discovering the tiniest disease-causing flaws - and …
15 Ways Genomics Influences Our World
​Genomics is helping us understand what makes each of us different and what makes us the same.
… Elephant Man," is thought to have had a disease called Proteus syndrome, which causes overgrowth of skin or other tissues. … showed that mutations occurred in the gene AKT1  in this syndrome. Each person with the syndrome does not look the …
Event
On March 12-16, 2024, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) will participate in the 2024 ACMG Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting - an annual medical and scientific conference continues to provide groundbreaking research and the latest advances in medical genetics, genomics and personalized medicine.
… IDH1 mosaicism P237 Diagnosis of Cornelia de Lange Syndrome Through EPISign Whole Genome Methylation Assay: …
News Release
Clinical applications of genomics in neurology and psychiatry will be the focus of the 2014 lecture series Genomics in Medicine at Suburban Hospital.
Event
On November 1-5, 2023, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) will participate in the ASHG Annual Meeting - the world's largest human genetics and genomics meeting and exposition.  The annual meeting provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge science in all areas of human genetics.Â
… disease PB2372 Gustavo Nieto-Alamilla Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome: Exploring the therapeutic effect of gene therapy … in human cancers PB5151 Molly Behan Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome: Using AAV vectors to understand the development of …
Clinical Research
A study with the goal of finding the genetic cause of familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) and several novel and undiagnosed causes of autoinflammatory disease.
… medical history is consistent with an autoinflammatory syndrome, or if there are other studies that may be more … Fever (FMF) TNF Receptor Associated Periodic Fever Syndrome (TRAPS) Deficiency of Adenosine Deaminase 2 (DADA2) … VEXAS (Vacuoles, E1 ligase, X-linked Autoinflammatory Syndrome) Haploinsufficiency of A20 (HA20) Sideroblastic …