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Researchers and clinicians are sequencing human genomes faster than ever, so considering the societal implications of genomic data is even crucial.
… Lockhart, Ph.D., program director, all in NHGRI's Division of Genomics and Society; and Cristina Kapustij, M.S., Sonya … our Policy and Program Analysis Branch in the Division of Policy, Communication and Education. … The reach of genomics is wide-ranging and can touch on many different …
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Researchers developed a technique that will aid in a more accurate reconstruction of human genomes.
… Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) have developed a new technique that … of human genomes by determining the sections of the genome that come from each parent. This new technique, … reconstructs a genome from the much smaller pieces of DNA that sequencing machines are able to read, much like …
Genomics and Medicine
The NHGRI Genomic Medicine Working Group has compiled a list of interesting advances.
… Genomic Medicine Working Group (GMWG) compiles a list of interesting advances and helpful educational resources in … about the selection criteria and categories, see the list of categories and their definitions . … NHGRI Genomic Medicine Working Group has compiled a list of interesting advances. …
Talking Glossary
Scientific racism is a historical pattern of ideologies that generate pseudo-scientific racist beliefs.
… racism. Scientific racism is a historical pattern of ideologies that generate pseudo-scientific racist beliefs. … racism. Scientific racism is a historical pattern of ideologies that generate pseudo-scientific racist beliefs. … in the 19th and early 20th centuries were proponents of such ideologies. By the mid-20th century, …
Research Funding
CSER is rapidly advancing the knowledge necessary to develop best practices for implementating genomic sequence data into clinical care.
… Reports of genomic sequencing being applied to the medical care of individual patients are becoming more frequent, but much … and analyze evidence regarding the clinical utility of genome sequencing; 2) research the critical interactions … Lead PI(s) Study Title Clinical Focus Baylor College of Medicine Sharon Plon; Will Parsons, Amy McGuire Evaluating …
Research Funding
The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Pilot Project launched in September 2003 to identify all functional elements in the human genome sequence.
… The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) launched a public research consortium named the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) in September 2003 to carry out a project to identify all functional elements in the human genome sequence. … In April 2003, the finished sequence of the human genome was announced by the International Human …
About Genomics
Resources for understanding the first complete, gapless sequence of a human genome.
… uncovered the final DNA sequences that make up a human genome. Learn more about this extraordinary achievement. … The Human Genome Project ended in 2003, but genomic researchers had not yet determined every last base (or letter) of the human genome sequence. Instead, they had only …
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Baylor College of Medicine. Houston and the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee will be providing DNA sequencing for the Undiagnosed Diseases Network.
… The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced today that Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee will be providing DNA sequencing for the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN). Each … NIH announced six UDN grants that will fund studies of the function of genes thought to play roles in particular …
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The Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium has generated the first truly complete sequence of a human Y chromosome - the final human chromosome to be fully sequenced.
… team has generated the first truly complete sequence of a human Y chromosome , the final human chromosome to be … a team of researchers funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National … sequence particularly difficult to complete. Assembling sequencing data is like trying to read a long book cut into …
Talking Glossary
While some sequencing technologies produce reads that are only a few hundred nucleotides long, some methods can generate reads that are thousands to hundreds of thousands of nucleotides long, known as “long-read DNA sequencing.”
… Long-Read DNA Sequencing … While some sequencing technologies produce reads that are only a few … methods can generate reads that are thousands to hundreds of thousands of nucleotides long, known as “long-read DNA sequencing.” … DNA sequencing technologies determine the order of the base pairs in fragments of DNA known as “reads”. …