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For Patients and Families
Genetic professionals provide information and support to individuals or families who have genetic disorders or may be at risk for inherited conditions.
… work as members of health care teams providing information and support to individuals or families who have genetic … Genetics professionals are health care professionals with specialized degrees and experience in medical genetics and counseling. Genetics … work as members of health care teams providing information and support to individuals or families who have genetic …
Educational Resources
Genetic epidemiology is a relatively new medical discipline that seeks to understand how genetic factors interact with the environment in the context of disease in populations.
… Genetic Epidemiology, Healthcare, Medicine, Population Genetics, Genetic Disease … factors influence human traits, such as human health and disease. In many cases, the interaction of genes with the … seek to understand the causes, distribution and control of inherited disease in groups and the …
The Genomics Landscape
In the February 12, 2021 edition of The Genomics Landscape, Dr. Eric Green talks about the 20-year anniversary of the publications that reported the draft human genome sequence.
… will feature three individuals with strong ties to NHGRI. Dr. Francis Collins will continue as NIH director, Dr. … Lander will serve as President Biden’s science advisor and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and Dr. Alondra Nelson will serve as OSTP …
Educational Resources
Genetic engineering is the process of using recombinant DNA (rDNA) technology to alter the genetic makeup of an organism.
… species to produce a desired trait. Used in research and industry, genetic engineering has been applied to the … therapies, brewing yeasts, genetically modified plants and livestock, and more. …
Data Sharing Policies
Sample informed consent language, aligned with each of the informational elements of consent for genomic data sharing (GDS) outlined by NIH as important to convey, in language understandable to prospective participants.
… Informational Elements Outlined by NIH Guidance  Genomic and phenotypic data, and any other data relevant for the … federal and state laws and regulations.  *Note: NIH and NHGRI strongly encourages the broadest appropriate future use … Our goal is to make more research possible.  - Credit: NHGRI Special Considerations for Genomics Research and NIH …
Policy Issues
There are laws and policies that serve to protect the privacy of individuals' genomic information.
… applications or other uses. This page summarizes genetic and genomic privacy in these domains, along with information on the specific laws and policies that protect the privacy of genetic and genomic information. In the United States, the applicable … privacy.  Federal laws like the Common Rule  and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act …
Staff
Dr. Oleg Shchelochkov is Director of NHGRI Clinical and Laboratory Residencies and Fellowships, and an Associate Investigator in the Office of the Clinical Director.
… is a board-certified pediatrician, clinical geneticist and medical biochemical geneticist, and is currently an associate investigator at NHGRI. After his early pediatrics training at the University of Iowa and genetics training at Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. …
Research Training
Three-year residency program in medical genetics that trains physicians to diagnose, manage and counsel patients with genetic disorders.
… The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) offers a three-year residency program in medical genetics that trains physicians to diagnose, manage and counsel patients with genetic disorders. … The Medical Genetics Residency Program exposes students to rare genetic …
Educational Resources
A genetic marker is a DNA sequence with a known physical location on a chromosome.
Policy Issues
The GINA is an important U.S. civil rights law that protects individuals from discrimination based on their genetic information.
… U.S. Congress in the 1990s at a time when genetic testing and genetics research was taking off at breakneck speed. GINA … at a White House briefing in 2000 . Former Director of NHGRI and current Director of the National Institutes of … Policy Issues …