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National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research
The Director's Report-Related Documents contain links to materials supplemental to Dr. Eric Green's Director's Report presentation to the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research in May 2022.
… – Somatic Mosaicism across Human Tissues (SMaHT) Program: Tissue Procurement Center (U24) RFA-RM-22-013 – Somatic …
Genetic Disorders
Prostate cancer is a disease where certain cells in the prostate become abnormal and multiply to form a tumor.
… cancer is then made by a biopsy (taking a small piece of tissue) of the prostate. In the future, diagnosis of prostate … be done to remove as much of the prostate, the tumor and tissue around the prostate to check if the cancer cells have … muscle mass, and tenderness or enlargement of breast tissue. Chemotherapy is usually reserved for prostate cancer …
News Release
NIH researchers have discovered a rare and sometimes lethal inflammatory disease - otulipenia - that primarily affects young children.
The Genomics Landscape
In 2022, The Genomics Landscape spotlighted genomic data sharing each month in a series of entries. This page contains a collection of each of those entries.
… Originally published: February 3, 2022 The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project generated NHGRI’s most … Disorders, Convergent Neuroscience, the Genotype-Tissue Expression project, Human Pangenome Reference … Genes for Non-Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus - Tissue Biopsy Study” is a long-term, international, and …
The Genomics Landscape
In the February 2018 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green highlights the new director of NHGRI's Division of Genome Sciences.
… NIH Scientists Find Microbes on the Skin of Mice Promote Tissue Healing, Immunity Researchers Study Mothers' Food … Somatic Cell Genome Editing Tools Development of Cell and Tissue Platforms to Detect Adverse Biological Consequences of …
News Release
NHGRI researchers seek help from people with Sickle Cell Disease to find the factors - environmental, social and genetic - that impact the severity of symptoms.
News Release
NIH recently awarded approximately $6.8 million in grants to several research teams to study the biology of rare and undiagnosed diseases.
… central biorepository for storing UDN research participant tissue samples. "The Undiagnosed Diseases Network is aimed at … biorepository for storing UDN participant biological tissue samples used in DNA sequencing and other studies. This …
Genetic Disorders
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a rapidly progressive form of muscular dystrophy caused by a mutation in the DMD gene.
… Calf muscles initially enlarge and the enlarged muscle tissue is eventually replaced with fat and connective tissue (pseudohypertrophy). Muscle contractures occur in the … muscle fibers shorten and fibrosis occurs in connective tissue. Occasionally, there can be pain in the calves. …
Educational Resources
Microarray technology is a general laboratory approach that involves binding an array of thousands to millions of known nucleic acid fragments to a solid surface, referred to as a “chip.”
… DNA or RNA isolated from a study sample (such as cells or tissue). Complementary base pairing between the sample and …
Genetic Disorders
Poland anomaly is an underdevelopment or absence of the chest muscle on one side of the body and webbing of the fingers of the hand on the same side.