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Mothers may be able to reduce guilt over their children's inherited obesity guilt by being more careful in the future about their children's diet.
… discussing weight loss with their overweight patients - for fear of alienating the patients or being ignored - two recent research studies suggest that doctor-patient talks about the genomic underpinnings of obesity can pay off. … mothers may make those mothers feel guilty for passing the condition on to their children. That's according to one …
Research Funding
Polygenic RIsk MEthods in Diverse populations (PRIMED) Consortium will work together to develop and implement approaches to integrating extant genotype and phenotype data for the purpose of conducting and disseminating Consortium-wide PRS analyses.
… Ramsay, Bamidele Tayo Polygenic Risk Score (PRS) Methods and Analysis for Populations of Diverse Ancestry — Study Sites University … Nancy Cox Polygenic Risk Scores and Health Disparities: The Role of Blood Cells Immune Response and Evolutionary … Members of the Polygenic RIsk MEthods in Diverse populations …
Educational Resources
Gene regulation is the process of turning genes on and off.
… Gene regulation is the process of turning genes on and off. … Gene regulation is the process used to control the timing, location and amount in which genes are expressed. The process can be … Gene regulation is the process of turning genes on and off. …
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… 1 NIH Workplace and Harassment Survey Institutes, Centers, and Offices (ICO s … Asked Questions Survey Measures and Methodology Q: How did the survey define sexual harassment? A: In order to assess … Rights Act of 1964 . Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a …
The Genomics Landscape
In the March 2018 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green highlights a strategic planning effort to establish a 2020 vision for genomics.
… NHGRI has a knack for identifying and celebrating notable anniversaries - and February 16, 2018, was no exception. That date marked the 10,000th day since the official launch of the Human … you to watch those play out at genome.gov . All the best, … The Genome: Unlocking Life's Code  exhibition is currently …
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Dr. Marjan Huizing is a staff scientist in the Medical Genetics Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute.
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… Dr. Huizing investigates rare human genetic disorders and associated intracellular processes in order to gain insight into the changes in molecular function that underlie various … disorders, with the hope of developing treatments for these illnesses. Her research focuses on disorders of …
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Nurses and other health professionals looking to integrate genomics into patient care now have access to an online toolkit with more than 100 resources.
… Nurses and other health professionals looking to integrate genomics … more than 100 resources, part of a new website launched by the National Human Genome Research Institute. … with input from clinical educators and administrators, The Method for Introducing a New Competency in Genomics …
The Genomics Landscape
In the January 5, 2023 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., talks about how artificial intelligence and machine learning are becoming omnipresent throughout NHGRI and in genomics.
… Happy New Year to you and yours! We start off the new year with good budgetary news and profound gratitude to the U.S. Congress for providing NIH and NHGRI a healthy Fiscal Year 2023 … complex areas of social and behavioral genomics.  All the best,   … Human DNA, however, is not identical among all people, and the small differences among human genomes (i.e., genomic …
Fact Sheet
Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is an essential molecule that performs many roles in the cell, from carrying the instructions to make proteins to regulating genes.
… How is RNA different from DNA? Chemically, RNA and DNA are very similar, but they perform different … help these molecules perform their unique roles. DNA is the genetic material for all life, usually existing in long strands that are … RNA, there are four different nucleotides, abbreviated by the first letters of their chemical names: A , U , C , and G …
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Dr. Mullikin was the former director of the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC).
… is in electrical engineering, having earned a B.S. and an M.S. from Purdue University, and in physics, with an … Dr. Mullikin first began to apply these skills to the genomics field in 1997, just as the Human Genome Project … greatly sped up the process of SNP discovery, first for The SNP Consortium Project and later in the International …