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CRGGH facilitates understanding of the relationship between genetic variation and population differences in disease distribution to inform health disparities.
… The Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health (CRGGH) facilitates a global … into the roles of culture, lifestyle, genetics, and genomics in disease etiology, differential susceptibility to … primary objectives: Develop genomic resources for the conduct of primary research into the etiology of …
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Dr. Charles Rotimi is the scientific director of and NIH Distinguished Investigator in the Division of Intramural Research. He also serves as the director of the Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health (CRGGH).
… Benin in Nigeria before immigrating to the United States for further studies. He started his education in the United … to the NIH in 2008 to found the trans-institute Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, with the mission of advancing …
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New grants totaling approximately $29.5 million will enable scientists to generate and maintain the most comprehensive reference sequence of the human genome.
… human genome is becoming obsolete. The funds are necessary for making advances in DNA sequencing technology and … methods possible. As a result, NHGRI will fund two centers as a part of a new Human Genome Reference Program … improvements will serve the growing basic and clinical genomics research communities by helping them interpret both …
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NIH-funded research highlights need for diversity in study populations, creates a comprehensive genomic toolkit for scientists
… Ganguly, Ph.D. … NIH-funded research highlights need for diversity in study populations, creates a comprehensive … Such an effort is vital because a vast majority of human genomics research use data based mostly on populations of … was formed in 2008, comprising researchers at NHGRI and centers across the United States. The paper in Nature on the …
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Dr. Gerard Bouffard directs the Bioinformatics Group at the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC).
… Dr. Bouffard performed data management and analysis for a YAC-based, STS content physical map of human chromosome … Bioinformatics Group, where he quickly established tools for sample tracking, data management and data analysis for a … Gene expression in proliferating human erythroid cells. Genomics , 59(2):168-77. 1999. [ PubMed ] Blackshear PJ, Lai …
The Genomics Landscape
In the June 2020 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green details NHGRI's new Diversity in Genomics Workforce Initiative.
… Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D. … This issue of The Genomics Landscape  comes at an especially difficult time, … about the COVID-19 pandemic, including those at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and NIH . For NIH …
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NIH expands its Encyclopedia of DNA Elements Project, which is creating a fundamental genomics resource scientists to study human health and disease.
… (ENCODE) Project, which is generating a fundamental genomics resource used by many scientists to study human … a network of researchers to develop and apply methods for mapping candidate functional elements in the genome, and … the scope of these efforts to include characterization centers, which will study the biological role that candidate …
Genomics and Medicine
The NHGRI Genomic Medicine Working Group has compiled a list of interesting advances.
… in genomic medicine. To submit notable accomplishments for consideration to the GMWG, please email: GMWG@nih.gov . … Year in Review 2019 Genomic Medicine Year in Review Search for specific publications by title, author, category and/or … Milestones In Medicine, Clinical Implementation Of Genomics, Pharmacogenomics, Oncology Sequencing, …
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NIH recently awarded approximately $6.8 million in grants to several research teams to study the biology of rare and undiagnosed diseases.
… diagnose them. … The funding establishes two new research centers, including a Model Organisms Screening Center and a … Finally, a one-year grant supports a central biorepository for storing UDN research participant tissue samples. "The … throughout the country, in addition to two DNA sequencing centers, a Model Organisms Screening Center, a Metabolomics …
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Dr. Sergey Koren is an associate Investigator in the Genome Informatics Section of the Center for Genomics and Data Science Research.
… Genome Informatics Section, Computational and Statistical Genomics Branch at the National Human Genome Research … Maryland, College Park, where he developed several tools for metagenome assembly and analysis. In 2010, Dr. Koren … and pioneered the use of single-molecule sequencing for the reconstruction of complete genomes. In 2015, Dr. …