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A complex disease is caused by the interaction of multiple genes and environmental factors.
… Complex Disease … A complex disease is caused by the interaction of multiple genes and environmental factors. … Genes, Cancer, Heart Disease, Gene-environment Interactions … A complex disease … influences of the physical and social environment. For this reason, complex diseases are also called …
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Shirley Freeman is an Intramural Program Assistant for NHGRI's Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health.
… Shirley Freeman is an Intramural Program Assistant for the Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health … under the Metabolic, Cardiovascular and Inflammatory Disease Genomics Branch at the National Human Genome Research …
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Huntington's disease is an inherited disease characterized by the progressive loss of brain and muscle function.
… Huntington's Disease … Huntington's disease is an inherited disease … Genes, Autosomal Dominant … Huntington’s disease is a rare inherited disorder associated with the progressive loss of …
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Dr. Francis Collins was a senior investigator in Center for Precision Health Research.
… research. Dr. Collins is a physician-geneticist noted for his landmark discoveries of disease genes and his … FS, National Institutes of Health Intramural Sequencing Center Comparative Sequencing Program Authors., NISC … Health Research. … Francis Collins, rare diseases, inherited diseases, Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria syndrome …
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Dr. Clesson Turner is the director of the Reverse Phenotyping Core and a staff clinician in the Center for Precision Health Research of the National Human Genome Research Institute.
… chief of genetics at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and as the chief of cancer genetics at the Murtha … associate professor in pediatrics and the interim director for precision medicine at the Uniformed Services University … Phenotyping Core in the Center for Precision Health Research. He oversees the daily operations of the core and …
News Release
Researchers recommend genomic approaches to discovering inherited variants in one or a handful of genes that affect an individual's rare disease risk.
… an ongoing challenge of distinguishing variants that cause disease from those that do not. Scientists estimate that each … a set of genomic approaches to implicating rare, inherited variants involving one or a handful of genes that have large effects on an individual's risk for developing rare diseases. These same approaches might …
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Six new grants will support researchers for new computational approaches to search millions of genomic variants for disease susceptibility.
… researchers to develop new computational approaches for searching among millions of genomic variants to find those that make a difference in disease susceptibility or in other traits. The awards are for … RNA structure can lead to diseases in people, including an inherited eye cancer, retinoblastoma. They would like to …
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.
… exposures, omics, and childhood NAFLD (LEON) Study Disease Study Site** Stephanie Christenson*, Neeta Thakur, … uNravel Determinants of disease in Asthma (EXPAND-Asthma) Center Disease Study Site** Tanika Kelly*, Ana Ricardo, Maria … Environment, Diabetes, and Kidney Disease: A Multi-Omics for Health and Disease Study Site Disease Study Site** …
The Genomics Landscape
In the January 2018 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green features the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center.
…  and Nature . While Science's  Breakthrough of the Year for 2017  is the cosmic merger of two neutron stars, the … the field of genomics.  … The NIH Intramural Sequencing Center  (NISC) sits on the top floor of a research building … the role of genomic variants in human health and disease. One such study, ClinSeq , has been exploring the …
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Dr. Guanjie Chen is a senior research fellow with the NHGRI's Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health.
… Rotimi laboratory from Howard University and joined the Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health (CRGGH), National … Shriner D, Adeyemo A, Ramos E, Chen G, et al. Mapping of disease-association variants in admixed population. Genome …