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Scientists drafted the blueprint for how to build a common goldfish. Now they'll use it to find out what gives ornamental goldfish their nuanced features, gaining insight into human health.
… M.A. … Scientists drafted the blueprint for how to build a common goldfish. Now they'll use it to find out what gives … his friend honed in on the goldfish, a close cousin to the common carp. The goldfish and common carp diverged into two separate species approximately …
EDUCATION
The Talking Glossary features more than 250 common genetic terms pronounced and explained in an easy-to-understand way by leading scientists and professionals at the National Human Genome Research Institute.
… Terms … The Talking Glossary features more than 250 common genetic terms pronounced and explained in an … Institute. … The Talking Glossary features more than 250 common genetic terms pronounced and explained in an …
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On August 16-18, 2017, NIH hosted a workshop, "The Human Microbiome: Emerging Themes at the Horizon of the 21st Century."
… to one. The ten-year, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Common Fund Human Microbiome Project was established to … can be found at genome.gov . National Institutes of Health Common Fund: The NIH Common Fund encourages collaboration and supports a series of …
Research at NHGRI
The NHGRI Division of Intramural Research aims to advance the frontiers of genetics and genomics.
… the treatment, prognosis, and prevention of rare and common diseases. The study of genomic variation and its … human history and health, disease susceptibility, and common principles of biology. … The NHGRI Intramural Program … arena. We study an array of disorders - rare as well as common, simple as well as complex - selected for their …
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An expert panel from the Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen) has critically reevaluated the scientific evidence for all 17 reported genes, disputing nine of the genes and revealing only three of the genes to be definitively associated with the most common form of the disease.
… of the genes to be definitively associated with the most common form of the disease. The work was funded by the … of the genes to be definitively associated with the most common form of the disease. … Clinical Genome Resource … of the genes to be definitively associated with the most common form of the disease. … News Release …
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Dr. Raman Sood is an associate investigator in the Translational and Functional Genomics Branch and director of the Zebrafish Core at the National Human Genome Research Institute.
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… Institute. … Raman Sood, zebrafish, rare diseases, common diseases, genetic disease, animal models of disease … …
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Researchers have used a new combination of microfluidics and genomics to fish out a specific gut bacterium from the sea of microbes in the human microbiome.
… Microbiome Project (HMP). The HMP is supported by the NIH Common Fund and coordinated by the National Human Genome … NHGRI can be found at http://www.genome.gov . The NIH Common Fund encourages collaboration and supports a series of exceptionally high impact, trans-NIH programs. Common Fund programs are designed to pursue major …
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Dr. Jennifer Troyer is the director of NHGRI's Division of Extramural Operations.
… (dGTEx) program. She also served as coordinator for the Common Fund Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) … Human Health and Heredity in Africa (H3Africa), NIH Common Fund, genomic technology development … Dr. Jennifer …
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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.
… and a coordinating center. The UDN is supported by the NIH Common Fund and builds on the success of the Undiagnosed … or dysfunction affects a disease or condition. The NIH Common Fund and NINDS awarded six, two-year gene function … Investigator: Randy Hall, Ph.D. Biorepository The NIH Common Fund also awarded just over $72,000 for one year to …
The Genomics Landscape
In the August 6, 2020 edition of The Genomics Landscape, Dr. Eric Green talks about NHGRI's completion of the third phase of the ENCODE Project and how it reveals the most extensive catalog to date of candidate functional elements that may regulate the genes in the human and mouse genomes.
… here , once available. …  Recently, the International Common Disease Alliance (ICDA) released their recommendations … aims to “improve prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of common diseases by accelerating discovery from genetic maps … of efforts to advance the use of genomics in common disease research, an area of great interest to NHGRI …