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NHGRI researchers and their international collaborators have added Williams-Beuren syndrome to the Atlas of Human Malformation Syndromes in Diverse Populations.
… Jeannine Mjoseth … Researchers with the National Human Genome Research Institute and their international … collaborators have added Williams-Beuren syndrome to the Atlas of Human Malformation Syndromes in Diverse Populations. … By …
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NHGRI researchers collaborated with physicians and medical geneticists worldwide to create the Atlas of Human Malformation Syndromes in Diverse Populations.
… Jeannine Mjoseth … Researchers with the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health, have collaborated with … and medical geneticists around the world to create the Atlas of Human Malformation Syndromes in Diverse Populations. …
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NHGRI researchers and their collaborators, have successfully used facial analysis software to diagnose Noonan syndrome in Africans, Asians and Latin Americans.
… Jeannine Mjoseth … Researchers with the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health, and their … the study. The researchers will add Noonan syndrome to the Atlas of Human Malformation Syndromes in Diverse Populations …
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Diverse populations are still underrepresented in public genomic databases, according to a new study by researchers from the NIH and Harvard Medical School.
… … Precision medicine will largely be built on vast troves of genomic information, but diverse populations are still underrepresented in public genomic databases, according to a new study by … Social and Behavioral Research Branch at NIH's National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). Mr. Bonham is also …
Leadership Initiatives
NHGRI aims to ensure all populations are knowledgeable about and can participate in genomics research.
… The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) wants to ensure that … genomics research, and have the opportunity to participate in various ways, such as becoming research scientists, … Genome Project, perhaps the greatest scientific endeavor of the 21st century, has changed the way medicine is …
Educational Resources
A gene pool is the total genetic diversity found within a population or a species.
… Genetics … A gene pool refers to the combination of all the genes (including alleles) present in a reproducing population or species. A large gene pool has … Inbreeding contributes to a smaller gene pool, making populations or species less able to adapt and survive when …
Research Funding
Polygenic RIsk MEthods in Diverse populations (PRIMED) Consortium will work together to develop and implement approaches to integrating extant genotype and phenotype data for the purpose of conducting and disseminating Consortium-wide PRS analyses.
… Grantees  Institution (Contact PI) PIs Title University of Maryland, Baltimore Sally Adebamowo*, Michele Ramsay, … Risk Score (PRS) Methods and Analysis for Populations of Diverse Ancestry — Study Sites University of Southern … California** David Conti*, John Witte Leveraging Diversity in Cancer Epidemiology Cohorts and Novel Methods to Improve …
Educational Resources
Population genomics is the application of genomic technologies to understand populations of organisms.
… Genomics … Population genomics is the application of genomic technologies to understand populations of organisms. … Gene, Genome, Genetic Variation, Allele, Founder Effect, Genetic Drift, HapMap, Human Genome Project … Population genomics is the large-scale …
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NIH-funded research highlights need for diversity in study populations, creates a comprehensive genomic toolkit for scientists
… Ph.D. … NIH-funded research highlights need for diversity in study populations, creates a comprehensive genomic toolkit … better understand how genomic variants influence the risk of forming certain diseases in people of different ethnic groups. The work was funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the National …
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Researchers funded by NIH have completed a detailed atlas documenting stretches of human DNA that influence gene expression.
… Faherty … Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have completed a detailed atlas documenting the stretches of human DNA that influence gene expression - a key way in which …