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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 …
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Dr. Sudre is an Associate Investigator in Dr. Philip Shaw's Neurobehavioral Clinical Research within the Social and Behavioral Research Branch
… data, with the added dimension of longitudinal design, to study both typical and atypical development. A current focus … adult outcome of childhood ADHD: a multimodal neuroimaging study of response inhibition. American Journal of Psychiatry, …
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Dr. Raman Sood is an associate investigator in the Translational and Functional Genomics Branch and director of the Zebrafish Core at the National Human Genome Research Institute.
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… and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) and at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) since 1997. Dr. Sood was … bioinformatics tools to her research ranging from genome-wide association studies to positional cloning to functional …
Educational Resources
Cytogenetics is the branch of genetics that studies the structure of DNA within the cell nucleus.
… FISH … Cytogenetics is a branch of biology focused on the study of chromosomes and their inheritance, especially as …
Research Funding
The Genomic Variation Program supports large-scale studies of human genetic variation.
… false detection rate of 5 percent. About 96 percent of the genome can be studied with high confidence. More than 80 million variant sites in the genome have been found so far, including single nucleotide … and responses to drugs and environmental factors, such as association and admixture approaches, and how to use patterns …
Research at NHGRI
The NHGRI Cancer Genetics and Comparative Genomics Branch identifies and study genes that contribute to cancer susceptibility and progression.
… implement new technologies and bioinformatics tools for genome analysis that are integral to this discovery pipeline. … cancers. This involves using both linkage and genome-wide association studies of families and case-control studies. In …
Research at NHGRI
The Medical Genetics Branch studies inherited disorders of metabolism and of human development.
… molecular, and cell biological levels involve the direct study of human subjects as well as the development and use of …
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Research points to the effects of nutrients in how DNA mutates in the mitochondria.
… Brody, Ph.D., a senior scientist at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National … and three Es. These impacts have been studied in the human genome. However, Drs. Brody and Parle-McDermott aimed to look … researchers then examined data from the Framingham Heart Study , a long-term research effort conducted in the U.S. …
Genomics and Medicine
The categories for the notable accomplishments of research are defined as research that uses genomics to generate or study.
… (below) as research that uses genomics to generate or study.  Category Information Content Genomic Medicine … are defined as research that uses genomics to generate or study. … The categories for the notable accomplishments of … are defined as research that uses genomics to generate or study. … Genomics and Medicine …
Fact Sheet
Several regulations and policies stipulate the information that must be given to research participants prior to their enrolling in a study.
… informed choice about whether to participate in a research study.  In the United States, the requirements for obtaining … taken by the U.S. Government during the Tuskegee Syphilis Study from 1932-1972 without the consent of the men involved in the study led to the creation of National Commission for the …