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In a large-scale study of people from diverse ancestries, researchers narrowed down the number of genomic variants that are strongly associated with blood lipid levels and generated a polygenic risk score to predict elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels, a major risk factor for heart disease.
… Study of millions of people from diverse ancestral groups … In a large-scale study of people from diverse ancestries, researchers narrowed … levels, a major risk factor for heart disease. The study, published in the journal Nature , was led by the … are important for people of non-European ancestry, this study also demonstrates how including people of diverse …
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NIH researchers have developed a breath test that measures how well patients with methylmalonic acidemia (MMA) respond to receiving liver or combined liver and kidney transplantation.
… experimental genomic therapies that target the liver. The study results were published in Genetics in Medicine . … available food additive. The team recruited 57 study participants, including 19 MMA patients who had … Currently, the test is only available for use at the NIH Clinical Center; however, the researchers hope it will …
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NIH leaders are calling for the scientific community to develop a consensus on the appropriate use of race and ethnicity in biomedical research.
… in biomedical research, National Institute of Health (NIH) leaders are calling for the scientific community to … data and its appropriate use in biomedical research. Major NIH efforts are also underway to enhance representation of … on the appropriate use of race and ethnicity in research study designs, interpretation of results, publications and …
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American Indians and Alaska Natives IRB training programs at NIH ensure the welfare of people participating in federally regulated research.
… and Alaska Natives at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). IRBs are committees, at NIH and at other research institutions, which ensure the … types of federally-regulated research. To qualify for NIH grants, all researchers must understand and comply with …
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NIH investigators have discovered that genomic switches of a blood cell are key to regulating the human immune system.
… Investigators with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered the genomic switches of a blood cell are … paper, John J. O'Shea, M.D., is the scientific director at NIH's National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and … in the Molecular Immunology and Inflammation Branch. The study was performed in collaboration with investigators led …
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NIH awarded grants to six medical centers to select from the most difficult-to-solve medical cases and develop effective approaches to diagnose them.
… site will contribute local medical expertise to the NIH Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN). The network includes and is modeled after an NIH pilot program that has enrolled people with intractable … foreign countries. The network builds on a program at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md., that for the past six …
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NIH lost a key member of its broader genomics team when Robert Blakesley, Ph.D., director of the NISC sequencing group at NIH, retired on Dec. 31, 2015.
… the resulting data. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will lose a key member of its broader genomics team with … Blakesley, Ph.D., director of the sequencing group at the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC) in Rockville, … National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of NIH. "When I recruited him to NISC in 2000, I knew that we …
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Dr. Gerard Bouffard directs the Bioinformatics Group at the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC).
… of the Human Genome Project. In 1997, he co-founded the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC) as director of the … Gerard Bouffard, NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC), bioinformatics, … Gerard Bouffard, NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC), bioinformatics, …
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Researchers have used a new combination of microfluidics and genomics to fish out a specific gut bacterium from the sea of microbes in the human microbiome.
… implicated in health and disease, according to a study published online the week of June 23, 2014, in the … Microbiome Project (HMP). The HMP is supported by the NIH Common Fund and coordinated by the National Human Genome … Steven Benowitz, NHGRI, 301-451-8325, or steven.benowitz@nih.gov NHGRI is one of the 27 institutes and centers at the …
The Genomics Landscape
In the May 2020 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green details how NIH is ramping up research on COVID-19; NHGRI's expansion of its Genome Technology Program; and the the DiY Genome: Unlocking Life's Code exhibition toolkit.
…  In response to the current global pandemic, NIH is aggressively tackling the biomedical research … institutions around the country. For example, a number of NIH Institutes and Centers have issued funding opportunity … and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), have initiated a study to quantify undetected cases of coronavirus infection . …