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NHGRI commemorates the life and legacy of genomics champion Representative Louise M. Slaughter (D-N.Y.), who passed away in March 2018, by naming an annual National DNA Day lecture at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in her honor.
… a strong advocate for genomics research, and her work on the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA) helped to create protections against genetic … in the House of Representatives that created National DNA Day, which celebrates the completion of the Human Genome …
News Release
NIH will fund researchers to develop computational approaches to figure out which differences in DNA make people more susceptible to disease.
… Sheena Faherty, Ph.D. … New grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will fund researchers to develop … approaches to figure out which differences in DNA make people more susceptible to disease. The awards, …
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NIH investigators have discovered that genomic switches of a blood cell are key to regulating the human immune system.
… Jeannine Mjoseth … Investigators with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered the genomic switches of a … but most of the alterations are found in regions of the DNA that do not carry genes. Scientists have suspected that …
Media Advisory
With the publication of 16 high-quality reference genomes from across vertebrates, the Vertebrate Genome Project establishes standards for biodiversity genomics and reports discoveries in comparative biology, conservation, and health research
… learn more about biodiversity, human health and disease. … The  Vertebrate Genomes Project , part of the  Genome 10K  Community of Scientists, today …
The Genomics Landscape
In the September 2023 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green, recaps the April 2023 virtual reunion of the leaders of the five genome-sequencing centers (G5), where they tell the untold story on how they ushered the Human Genome Project across the finish line in 2003.
… NHGRI will reach another of its many celebrated ‘odometer moments’ this month! The 100th meeting of the National Advisory Council for Human … also featured external collaborators, including the DNA Learning Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and the …
News Release
On June 26, 2000, nearly 10 years into the 13-year project, President Bill Clinton announced an important milestone for the Human Genome Project at a major White House ceremony.
… Prabarna Ganguly, Ph.D. … Without a doubt, this is the most important, most wondrous map ever produced by … president Bill Clinton june 26, 2000 … The signature goal of the Human Genome Project (HGP) was to generate a sequence … of the three billion letters (A, C, G and T) in the human DNA instruction book. The multidisciplinary, international …
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Three practical strategies for reducing the risk of re-identification, the process by which anonymized personal genomic data are matched with the owner.
… Sheena Faherty, Ph.D. … Data sharing is key to the success of medical research, and participants in medical research are … matched with the true owner. The paper is the result of a project called The Beacon Project, initiated by the Global …
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Scientists from the 1000 Genomes Project Consortium has created the world's largest catalog of genomic differences among humans.
… Steven Benowitz … An international team of scientists from the 1000 Genomes Project Consortium has … for a new understanding of how inherited differences in DNA can contribute to disease risk and drug response. Of the …
Educational Resources
A contig is a series of overlapping DNA sequences used to make a map that reconstructs the original DNA sequence of a chromosome or a region of a chromosome.
… Contig … A contig is a series of overlapping DNA sequences used to make a map that reconstructs the original DNA sequence of a chromosome or a region of a …
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A haplotype is a set of DNA variations, or polymorphisms, that tend to be inherited together.
… Haplotype … A haplotype is a set of DNA variations, or polymorphisms, that tend to be inherited … Nucleotide Polymorphisms, SNPs, International HapMap Project … A haplotype is a physical grouping of genomic …