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Dr. Michael Erdos is an Associate Investigator in the Molecular Genetics Section of the Center for Precision Health Research.
… non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) genetics study and in the Integrated Network for Systematic Analysis … T2D. Over 90% of these fall in non-coding regions of the genome, making it difficult to determine what gene has its … colleagues are employing this system in CRISPRi -genome wide gene inhibition experiments to identify critical genes …
Clinical Research
FAQs for Autoinflammatory Diseases Study providers and researchers.
… Whom should I refer to the NIH study? We are interested in seeing patients with the … FAQs for Autoinflammatory Diseases Study providers and researchers. … FAQs for Autoinflammatory Diseases Study providers and researchers. …
Clinical Research
A study for patients with unexpected genetic results
… A new study is recruiting people who received unexpected genetic … The Genomic Services Research Program (GSRP) is a study of people with "secondary results” from genetic … a secondary result, you may be eligible to join this study. The purpose of this study is to learn about how people …
Educational Resources
Positional cloning is a laboratory technique used to locate the position of a disease-associated gene along the chromosome.
Educational Resources
A syndrome is a collection of recognizable traits or abnormalities that tend to occur together and are associated with a specific disease.
Event
NHGRI workshop seeking scientific perspectives for relating genomic variation to human phenotype.
… p.m. Current State of the Art in Variant Discovery and Association Amit Khera Laura Bierut Jonathan Haines 12:10 - … Room ) How much more sequencing, if any, is needed to study Mendelian and common disease, and what should NHGRI do … 23, 2019 8:00 - 8:15 a.m. Introduction: Variant and Genome Function NHGRI Staff 8:15 - 9:00 a.m. Current State of …
News Release
An international team of researchers including NIH has completed the first comprehensive characterization of genomic diversity across sub-Saharan Africa.
… , is the first to use both dense genotyping and whole-genome sequence data to explore the genomic-variation … have carried out only a modest number of genome-wide association studies, or GWAS, using continental African … A First-of-Its-Kind Study … Researchers conduct comprehensive genomic study of sub-Saharan Africans …
Staff
Dr. Heidi Parker is an Associate Investigator in the Comparative Genetics Section of the Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch, NHGRI.
… and Comparative Genomics Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute of NIH. She earned her Ph.D. from … and breed structure with in-depth investigation of the dog genome to identify genes and genomic loci involved in complex … For nearly two decades, Dr. Parker has studied the genome of the dog and what it can tell us about how and where …
News Release
NHGRI researchers have generated the largest catalog of genetic variants associated with physical traits for domesticated dog breeds.
… In a new study, researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) have generated the largest … The researchers used whole genome sequencing and genome-wide association studies to identify genomic variants associated … create the largest global catalog of variations in the dog genome …