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The Genomics Landscape
In the November 2019 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green highlights the International Common Disease Alliance's scientific plenary and launch meeting in September, which included an international panel on opportunities emerging outside the U.S., North America, and Europe; discussions about polygenic risk scores; and an overview about data platforms, data sharing, and ethics.
… teamed up with colleagues at the National Center for Biotechnology Information to develop a graphical display …
News Release
NIH is awarding $18.9 million towards research that aims to accelerate the use of genome sequencing in clinical care for all individuals.
… Hill Gregory Cooper, Ph.D., HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama Katrina Goddard, Ph.D., …
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New grants totaling approximately $29.5 million will enable scientists to generate and maintain the most comprehensive reference sequence of the human genome.
… (EBI), which will coordinate with the National Center for Biotechnology Information, to form the WashU-UCSC-EBI Human …
Fact Sheets
Comparative genomics is a field of biological research in which researchers compare the complete genome sequences of different species.
… genomics is finding wider applications in agriculture, biotechnology and zoology as a tool to tease apart the often …
News Release
The goat has contributed its DNA to a new method for high-quality, low-cost genome reconstruction, one that will be useful for reading human and other genomes.
… is freely available from the National Center for Biotechnology Information . A goat reference genome had been …
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As researchers uncover millions of DNA differences in genes, doctors struggle to know which of these inherited differences, called variants, really matter.
… ClinGen. ClinVar is supported by the National Center for Biotechnology Information of the National Library of …
Professional Development
This is a fellowship program designed for recent undergraduates to gain exposure to and training in multiple career paths that advance public service for human genetics and genomics.
… Research Program, which awards grants to academic and biotechnology communities to carry out basic and applied …
Fact Sheets
Genome-wide association studies involve scanning markers across the genomes of many people to find genetic variations associated with a particular disease​.
… The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), a part of NIH's National …
News Release
Six new grants will support researchers for new computational approaches to search millions of genomic variants for disease susceptibility.
… Medicine, Seattle and HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama; $1.9 million, three years …
Event
The Inter-Society Coordinating Committee for Practitioner Education in Genomics (ISCC-PEG) held its ninth in-person meeting on February 25, 2020, in Bethesda, Maryland.
… Certified Genetic Counselor HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology Carla Easter ISCC-PEG Co-Chair Chief Education …