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Laura Koehly, Ph.D., has been named chief of NHGRI's Social and Behavioral Research Branch.
… SBRB research includes a focus on disorders that have major public health impact such as attention deficit … give rise to a variety of explanations. She switched her major and studied statistics while maintaining an interest in …
Educational Resources
Transcription is the process of making an RNA copy of a gene sequence.
… protein information encoded in DNA. In humans and other complex organisms, mRNA moves from the cell nucleus to the …
Staff
Dr. Joshua Denny is the head of the NHGRI Precision Health Informatics Section and Chief Executive Officer of the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program.
… reports and tests, and medication records, are the major source of data for the laboratory. Over the years, … project for those in Dr. Denny’s group is to analyze complex datasets incorporating hundreds of thousands of … and up to millions of subjects. Their work accounts for complex interactions between a highly dimensional feature …
The Genomics Landscape
In the June 2019 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green details the legacy of the Human Microbiome Project as it reaches completion.
… guidance from Institutes across NIH, with NHGRI playing a major leadership role. This 10-year, $215-million initiative … The HMP was designed to increase our understanding of the complex and abundant microbial communities of the human body … of each body site is, indeed, quite distinct. The major findings of this first phase of HMP were published in …
Educational Resources
Gene environment interaction is an influence on the expression of a trait that results from the interplay between genes and the environment.
… are influenced by how one or more genes interact in complex ways with environmental factors, such as chemicals in …
Educational Resources
Proteins are an important class of molecules found in all living cells.
… Proteins are large, complex molecules that play many important roles in the body. …
Event
We invite scholars to submit ideas to be one of six to seven speakers at our symposium, “Irreducible Subjects: Disability and Genomics in the Past, Present, and Future”, with an additional opportunity to join a collected set of papers on the same theme.
… as society can make them, and that such making reveals complex interplays between ideologies, inequities of power, … scholars have pointed out that selection against “major” genetic impairments or “abnormalities,” or even the … testing or screening (clinical and popular), and the complex legacies of eugenics and scientific racism Genetic …
Staff
Dr. Marjan Huizing is a staff scientist in the Medical Genetics Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute.
… of the muscle transmembrane dystrophin-glycoprotein complex, is low in sialic acid in HIBM patients. Based on … the biological causes of these conditions. She played a major role in identifying six distinct genetic subgroups of … These results will be instructive for elucidating the complex vesicular transport processes that are involved in …
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By considering mixed genetic lineages, NHGRI researchers demonstrated that previously inferred links between a genomic variant that helps digest lactose and traits such as a person’s height and cholesterol level may not be valid.
… mixed ancestral backgrounds and that accounting for these complex ancestral backgrounds is critically important in …
News Release
Using a virtual reality buffet, researchers studied the hundreds of small decisions mothers make while selecting food for their children.
… Test Unit. Obesity has long been recognized as a major health problem in the United States. Nearly 69 percent … aren't understood, and the genetic risk factors are complex. Dr. Persky and her collaborators are exploring the …