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The Genomic Data Science Working Group facilitates engagement of the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research on genomics and data science issues.
… the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research on complex issues at the interface between genomics and data …
The Genomics Landscape
In the October 2021 issue of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., introduces us to new scientific director Charles Rotimi, Ph.D., his background and prior accomplishments.
… diseases. His ground-breaking discoveries have had a major impact on the lives of patients. All the best, … Disease Genomics Branch. Charles has designed and led major basic science and clinical research projects in human … is perhaps most well-known for being a key architect and major participant in the Human Heredity and Health in Africa …
Outreach
Five pieces from the Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code exhibition are now on display at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus in Bethesda, MD.
… health. Is Genetic Information Different? New and often-complex ethical and medical questions have emerged as genetic …
Fact Sheet
Eugenics is the scientifically erroneous and immoral theory of “racial improvement” and “planned breeding,”
… inherited in a simple fashion. Similarly, they believed complex diseases and disorders were solely the outcome of … risk scores, that can estimate risks for more genetically complex disorders have raised concerns among ethicists that …
News Release
Researchers are asking if the precision medicine approach will reduce or eliminate the role that race plays in prescribing drugs and in health care overall.
… dosing medications, an approach that oversimplifies the complex interplay of ancestry, health, disease and drug …
News Release
Small businesses with NHGRI grants were instrumental in contributing to the completion of the human genome sequence, redefining the future of genomics.
… “gaps” emerge — sections where the DNA sequence is too complex to be easily assembled using short snippets. Many … sequence) and getting an accurate picture of more complex regions of the genome were major challenges. Starting in 2009, a new method called Hi-C …
Event
NHGRI and the University at Buffalo Center for Disability Studies will hold a two-day symposium on October 6-7, 2022 to address historical constructions of disability and ableism, with a focus on the “irreducibility” of individuals with disability and the history of disability.
Research Funding
Funded in 2016 to harmonize, access, and analyze the data produced by the sequencing centers.
… develop methods to discover variants underlying common, complex, and Mendelian diseases. …
Staff
Dr. Adebowale Adeyemo is an associate investigator and deputy director of NHGRI's Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health.
… at NHGRI in 2016. Dr. Adeyemo works on the genomics of complex disease, focusing on cardiometabolic disorders and complex disorders of childhood. He has published widely in … obesity and diabetes, are non-communicable conditions of major public health and clinical significance. Dr. Adeyemo's …
News Release
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first treatment for progeria, a rare and fatal pediatric disease, characterized by dramatic, rapid aging beginning in childhood.
… Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., available to discuss this major advance for rare, fatal pediatric disease. …