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The Genomics Landscape
In the October 2019 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green focuses on recent efforts to make the human genome reference sequence useful to basic and clinical researchers and how increasing the representation of human genomic variation will remain key components of NHGRI’s Human Genome Reference Program.
… were difficult to “read out” completely using the DNA-sequencing methods available at that time. In addition, the … sequence. Lead members of the GRC included the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the McDonnell Genome Institute at … Information. These efforts have included additional DNA sequencing by new and different methods to close gaps and …
Educational Resources
A marker is a DNA sequence with a known physical location on a chromosome. Markers can help link an inherited disease with the responsible genes.
Research at NHGRI
NHGRI researchers are creating foundational tools and methods to expand genomics research, ultimately leading to medical breakthroughs.
News Release
Jeffery Schloss, Ph.D., founding director of the Division of Genome Sciences, is embarking on a new journey: retirement.
… from a successful career that included leading NHGRI's DNA Sequencing Technology Development Program. He also aided in … of nucleic acids-related technologies - in particular, DNA sequencing technology and the well-known $1,000 Genome … refreshed and renewed several large programs, like the sequencing centers, the ENCyclopedia Of DNA Elements (ENCODE) …
Staff
Abdel Elkahloun is an associate investigator in NHGRI's Office of Scientific Core Facilities.
… DS, Elkahloun AG, Singh LN, Lee-Lin SQ; NISC Comparative Sequencing Program, Kolodgie FD, Cheng Q, Zhao X, Chen MY, … involved in coronary artery calcification by transcriptome sequencing of cell lines. BMC Genomics, 15:198. 2014. [ …
Educational Resources
A bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) is an engineered DNA molecule used to clone DNA sequences in bacterial cells (for example, E. coli).
… Cloning, Bacteria, Bioengineering, DNA Sequencing, Base Pair, Chromosomes … E. coli). BACs are often used in connection with DNA sequencing. Segments of an organism's DNA, ranging from … the BAC DNA, which can then be isolated and used in sequencing DNA. …
Research Funding
The Genomics of Gene Regulation project develops methods to construct predictive, accurate gene regulatory network models using genomic data.
Educational Resources
Ancestry-informative markers are sets of polymorphisms for a DNA sequence found in different frequencies between populations from different geographical regions.
Educational Resources
Epigenetics is an emerging field of science that studies heritable changes caused by the activation and deactivation of genes without any change in the underlying DNA sequence of the organism.
About Genomics
Resources for understanding the first truly complete sequence of the Y chromosome, the final human chromosome to be fully sequenced.