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Secondary Genomics Finding Service
Clinical Research Staff and Protocol Coordinators
… and a genetics consult will be entered into CRIS. … 1. Don't give participants a choice about receiving secondary …
Genetic Disorders
Thalassemia is a group of inherited diseases of the blood that affect a person's ability to produce hemoglobin, resulting in anemia.
… reproductive therapy is also an option for carriers who don't want to risk giving birth to a child with thalassemia. …
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Experts from The NHGRI Dog Genome Project turned to Reddit to answer questions as part of an "Ask Me Anything".
… variants for breed-specific diseases. While we don't market any of these tests commercially ourselves, the …
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More research must be done to understand the interactions of ancient genes with modern environments.
… (phenotypic appearances) and self and group identification don't capture the ancestral backgrounds of individuals that …
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The High School Scientific Training and Enrichment Program is one of four internship subprograms in the NIH Summer Internship Program in Biomedical Research.
… in medicine or global health. … "Places [like Liberia] don't have the necessary resources or research in times of …
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TCF1 (for T cell factor-1) is essential for the creation and persistence of disease-fighting antibodies in the bloodstream.
… Disease Research Branch. "If we knock it out in mice, we don't get the T follicular helper cells, or very many of …
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Final outcomes from the most comprehensive analysis to-date of humans and their microbiomes definitively link microbes and microbial activities with health problems.
… conditions. There is an important caveat here. Researchers don’t yet know if a change in a microbial community leads to … in response to the development of a disease. Researchers don’t yet know if a change in a microbial community leads to …
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DNA Day Reddit “Ask Me Anything” prompts rousing discussion.
… community) research by He Jiankui in China. We certainly don’t know enough about the technology (including CRISPR’s … I think you’ve hit on a really important point here. If we don’t make concerted efforts to ensure that genomics advances …
15 Ways Genomics Influences Our World
Genomics is helping us understand what makes each of us different and what makes us the same.
… of children and adults with genetic conditions that we don't always see showcased in magazines or on billboards. … resilient to these genomic variants for reasons that we don't yet understand? Another possibility is that they are …
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An interview with Meru Sadhu, an Earl Stadtman Investigator and head of the systems biology and genome engineering section within the NHGRI Intramural Research Program, where he talks about his research and why yeast have a special place in his heart.
… and June. It's a really common tree in this area, but I don’t think most people are aware of it! … Ganguly: Nothing …