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Four NHGRI researchers share the steps toward a career in genomics with 60 Brooklyn-area high school students.
… event, "Celebrating Genomics Careers for the Twenty-first Century," have been testing a curriculum that the GEOC …
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Grants are awarded to GTEx project to explore human gene expression and regulation in different tissues, and how genomic variation modulates that expression.
… signals in cells, and another group of proteins that act as switches, affecting which genes are turned on. The … research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information …
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NHGRI researchers have discovered a new inflammatory disorder called vacuoles, E1 enzyme, X-linked, autoinflammatory and somatic syndrome (VEXAS), which is caused by mutations in the UBA1 gene.
… cells, which are responsible for systemic inflammation and act as the first line of defense against infections. The … research, and is investigating the causes, treatments and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information …
Research Funding
The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) Project will create a resource that researchers can use to study how inherited changes in genes lead to common diseases
… from tissue to tissue. Researchers also discovered eQTLs act in different ways. Some eQTLs may affect a set of genes …
Educational Resources
Mendelian inheritance refers to certain patterns of how traits are passed from parents to offspring.
… thousands of experiments with pea plants in the 19th century. Mendel’s discoveries of how traits (such as color …
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Researchers recommend more rigorous clinical study of dietary management practices for patients with IEMs, which may result in reformulating some medical foods.
… drugs. A medical food, as defined in the Orphan Drug Act of 1983, is regulated as a food by the Food and Drug … research, and is investigating the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information …
About NHGRI
A timeline of notable events in the history of the National Human Genome Research Institute.
… Senate passes the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2003  (S. 1053) [thomas.loc.gov] by a vote of 95-0, … Project and the field of genomics over the last quarter-century, the NHGRI History of Genomics Program hosts a seminar series entitled "A Quarter Century after the Human Genome Project's Launch: Lessons …
The Genomics Landscape
In the July 2021 issue of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., reflects on the legacy the LINCS program leaves as it has completed its goal of creating a large-scale, systematically generated molecular and cellular dataset.
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Sarah Bates has been named the new chief of the Communications and Public Liaison Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute.
… real and can be measured – something Einstein predicted a century ago. Then, two years later, she supported the …
Leadership Initiatives
The History of Genomics Program collects and organizes historic materials related to the field of genomics and NHGRI as an organization.
… the History of Genomics April 29 – 30, 2015  A Quarter Century after the Human Genome Project's Launch: Lessons …