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Researchers identified regions of the genome associated with skin color variation in some African populations, furthering skin disease and cancer research.
… research was also supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, the National …
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NHGRI aims to ensure all populations are knowledgeable about and can participate in genomics research.
… affecting minority populations Africa-America Type-2 Diabetes Study Collaborative study with Howard University to study the genetics of Type II diabetes in three locations in Africa. National Cooperative …
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… AAA, extreme obesity and related conditions, remission of diabetes after bariatric surgery Group Health, University of … 67.7% EA, 19.7% AA, 4.8% Asian 4,987 (83% female) Type 2 diabetes, diverticulosis, lower GI non-syndromic polyp, …
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NIH will fund grants totaling $38 million over five years to develop methods that will improve the way that polygenic risk scores can be used to predict disease in diverse communities.
… numerous conditions, such as coronary heart disease and diabetes, and to identify people who are at high risk. This …
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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.
… team, with collaborators from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and the National …
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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.
… Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria as part of the Africa America Diabetes Mellitus study.  Charles Rotimi, Ph.D., scientific …
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A biological pathway is a series of actions among molecules in a cell that leads to a certain product or a change in the cell.
… a pathway, the result can be a disease such as cancer or diabetes. …
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NIH has awarded grants of more than $28 million aimed at deciphering the language of how and when genes are turned on and off.
… affected by faulty gene regulation, such as cancer, diabetes and Parkinson's disease. NHGRI launched the Genomics …
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Dr. Daniel Shriner is a researcher in NHGRI's Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health.
… with obesity in West Africans and African-Americans. Diabetes 59(6):1549–1554. PMCID: PMC2874717. Kang, S. J., … M., Alcohol Genome-wide Association (AlcGen) Consortium, Diabetes Genetics Replication and Meta-analyses (DIAGRAM+) … D. W. 2012. A genome-wide association search for type 2 diabetes genes in African Americans. PLoS ONE , 7(1):e29202. …
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eMERGE Network will support multiple clinical sites and a coordinating center with $75 million over five years.
… (e.g., coronary heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and diabetes). They will also look to understand how health …