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The Genomics Landscape
In the January 5, 2023 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., talks about how artificial intelligence and machine learning are becoming omnipresent throughout NHGRI and in genomics.
… scholarly perspectives about multiple issues related to complex areas of social and behavioral genomics. All the … setting the stage for widespread adoption of AI to tackle complex biomedical challenges beyond human intuition. The … and healthcare research. Bridge2AI includes projects with major genomics components. Ten years ago, it was hard to …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
Research Funding
NHGRI is initiating a new program-the Impact of Genomic Variation on Function (IGVF) Consortium to develop a framework for systematically understanding the effects of genomic variation on genome function and how these effects shape phenotypes.
… of gene regulatory elements and variants critical to complex cellular phenotypes HG012053 Mapping Awards Jason … September 4, 2024 Differences in our DNA have major influences on how our genomes function, but how? News …
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 …