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For Health Professionals
Essential genomics competencies, practice guidelines, and curricular resources for a variety of health professions.
… tests and how results of DTC-GT may affect their patients’ health, wellness and medical decision making. … The … cutting edge science in the field. … Tools for Collecting Family History My Family Health Portrait Web-based tool to create a family
News Release
NIH is establishing the Multi-Omics for Health and Disease Consortium, with approximately $11 million awarded in the consortium’s first year of funding. The new consortium aims to advance the generation and analysis of “multi-omic” data for human health research.
… diverse populations. … The National Institutes of Health is establishing the Multi-Omics for Health and Disease Consortium , with approximately $11 … the generation and analysis of “multi-omic” data for human health research. Multi-omics refers to a research approach …
Event
On June 17-18, 2021, NHGRI hosts a workshop, Multi-Omics in Health and Disease: Current Applications, Challenges and Future Directions.
… 1: Setting the Stage - Application of multi-omics to study health and disease Moderator: Judy Cho, Icahn School of … 2:15 p.m. Keynote 1: Multi-omics Integration to Understand Health and Disease Nancy Cox, Vanderbilt University 2:15 - … barriers and opportunities? Panelists Myriam Fornage, UT Health Adam Butterworth, University of Cambridge Greg Gibson, …
For Patients and Families
The partnership engages communities on genomics, informs and shares perspectives, and impacts the focus of research.
… in Genomics brings together community liaisons and health advocates representing diverse populations to engage … The partnership brings together community liaisons and health advocates representing diverse populations to engage … communities, NHGRI and other National Institutes of Health (NIH) institutes, and national and international …
News Release
Researchers have now identified three health conditions for which people with SCT are at increased risk.
… sickle cell trait (SCT) and most never have related health complications. Researchers have now identified three health conditions for which people with SCT are at increased … Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health. "We need more research to clarify the health outcomes …
The Genomics Landscape
In the January 2020 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green highlights the newly developed polygenic risk scores webpage, which provides graphical and textual information about polygenic risk scores, describes polygenic traits, introduces how polygenic risk scores can be calculated, and explains how such scores can be interpreted.
… researchers involved in those international efforts. My deep appreciation to those who hosted me, attended my talks, and spent time describing their research … end, NHGRI plans to establish a new intramural precision health research program. Dr. Les Biesecker, Chief of the …
Educational Resources
Diploid is a cell or organism that has paired chromosomes, one from each parent.
… one from each parent. … Chromosomes, Genetics, Family Health History … Diploid is a term that refers to the …
The Genomics Landscape
In the July 2019 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green reflects on the milestones of the Newborn Sequencing in Genomic Medicine and Public Health (NSIGHT) Program as it reaches completion.
… identification, association, and function in human health and disease. If you are in the Boston area, we welcome … General Hospital on July 17 and Genomics in Medicine & Health Strategic Planning Workshop on September 26-27.   To … and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), the Newborn Sequencing …
Staff
Dr. Douglas Stewart is an associate investigator in NHGRI's Center for Precision Health Research.
… RS, Duanif A, Strauss JF, Spielman RS (posthumously). Family-based analysis of candidate genes for polycystic ovary … an associate investigator in NHGRI's Center for Precision Health Research. … Douglas Stewart, familial … an associate investigator in NHGRI's Center for Precision Health Research. … Staff …
Educational Resources
LOD stands for "logarithm of the odds." In genetics, the LOD score is a statistical estimate of whether two genes, or a gene and a disease gene, are likely to be located near each other on a chromosome.
… likely to be located near each other on a chromosome. … Family Health History, Genealogy, Genetic Disease … An LOD (short …