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Research Training
The Clinical Center Genomics Opportunity promotes precision medicine and development of infrastructure to support clinical genomics at the NIH Clinical Center.
… Office of Intramural Research (OIR), the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), the Deputy Director of … Award Program that is administered by OIR, reduced fee sequencing at the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center, clinical support from NHGRI regarding …
Event
NHGRI meeting focused on research that rapidly advances best practices for the implementation of genomic sequence data into clinical care.
… The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) sponsored the meeting …
The Genomics Landscape
In the March 2020 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green highlights the newly appointed Dr. Chris Gunter's role as Senior Advisor for Genomics Engagement as well as the 30 oral histories to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the launch of the Human Genome Project.
… … Late last month, I attended the annual Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT)  general meeting. The … – in one way or another – busily involved in the Human Genome Project. Having now attended all 21 AGBT general … will mark the 30th anniversary of the launch of the Human Genome Project (HGP). To commemorate this historic …
News Release
On June 26, 2000, nearly 10 years into the 13-year project, President Bill Clinton announced an important milestone for the Human Genome Project at a major White House ceremony.
… Clinton june 26, 2000 … The signature goal of the Human Genome Project (HGP) was to generate a sequence of the three … the completion of a working draft sequence of the human genome.   Standing beside President Clinton was Francis … Richard Wilson, Ph.D., who was co-director of the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University School of Medicine …
Educational Resources
Ancestry-informative markers are sets of polymorphisms for a DNA sequence found in different frequencies between populations from different geographical regions.
… from different geographical regions. … Ancestry, Genome, Family Health History, Genotype, DNA Sequence … …
The Genomics Landscape
In the October 2023 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green, reflects on the twelve years of groundbreaking research by the Clinical Sequencing Evidence-generating Research (CSER) consortium.
… Grant Program ( PA-19-056 ). …  Since 2011, the Clinical Sequencing Evidence-generating Research (CSER) consortium has … in June 2023. Over the past two decades, the power of genome sequencing has become evident in disciplines like … one of the most relevant areas for humanity is the use of genome sequencing in medicine; that is, genomic medicine (a …
Fact Sheet
Genomic data science is a field of study that enables researchers to use powerful computational and statistical methods to decode the functional information hidden in DNA sequences.
… ethical responsibilities, as information about a person's genome sequence is associated with complex issues related to … about how they will use and share the resulting genome-sequence data in the process of gaining such informed … increasingly help researchers process vast quantities of genome-sequence data to look for hidden patterns in DNA. …
Educational Resources
Gene amplification is an increase in the number of copies of a gene sequence.
… to an increase in the number of copies of a gene in a genome. Cancer cells, for example, sometimes produce multiple …
The Genomics Landscape
In the April 2020 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green provides an update on the final stage of the Genomics2020 strategic planning process; the NIH website for COVID-19 information, the Gene documentary debut on PBS and more.
… up to the 30th anniversary of the launch of the Human Genome Project in October 2020. The first four such oral … of strategic planning that dates back to the Human Genome Project. These efforts have proven extremely valuable … . NHGRI plans to release the draft 2020 strategic plan on genome.gov on April 15. At that time, we will be engaging …
Staff
Dr. ​Adam Felsenfeld is a program director in the Division of Genome Sciences at the National Human Genome Research Institute.​
… Program Director with overall responsibility for the NHGRI Genome Sequencing Program (GSP), and specific responsibility for the … Dr. Felsenfeld is also responsible for the NHGRI Human Genome Reference Program and is coordinator for the Centers …