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In a large-scale study of people from diverse ancestries, researchers narrowed down the number of genomic variants that are strongly associated with blood lipid levels and generated a polygenic risk score to predict elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels, a major risk factor for heart disease.
… cholesterol levels, a major risk factor for heart disease. The study, published in the journal  Nature , was … at the association of specific genomic variants and cardiovascular disease. However, the design of these studies … epidemiologist and program officer within the Division of Cardiovascular Sciences at the National Heart Lung, and Blood …
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William J. Pavan, Ph.D. is the chief of NHGRI's Genetic Disease Research Branch.
… and to dissect gene regulatory pathways in development and disease. His primary areas of interest include the … as well as the lysosomal storage disorder Niemann-Pick disease, Type C. By integration of basic science research … discover the alterations in these pathways that lead to disease and develop paradigms for therapeutic interventions. …
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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.
… of Health is establishing the Multi-Omics for Health and Disease Consortium , with approximately $11 million awarded … and cellular processes involved in human health and disease, including untangling genetic and non-genetic factors in health and disease. Such an approach offers great promise in areas such …
For Patients and Families
List of resources to help you find accurate and reliable information on genetic and rare diseases. ​
… your medical care. … Information on just about any disease can be obtained from the published scientific … These articles present what is known to date about a disease. Such articles may focus on the cause, diagnosis, treatment or other aspects of a disease. Basic science or laboratory research: These articles …
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NIH awarded grants to six medical centers to select from the most difficult-to-solve medical cases and develop effective approaches to diagnose them.
… 15 genes not previously associated with any other human disease. A combination of genomic and clinical analyses …
Policy Issues
Genome editing is currently being applied to research on cancer, mental health, rare diseases, and many other disease areas.
… on cancer, mental health, rare diseases, and many other disease areas. … Basic research exploring human and nonhuman … to help scientists understand the basic biology underlying disease, as well as to discover new possible therapeutic …  (traits). A typical study might be to model human disease in mice by deleting or editing certain genes that are …
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Dr. William A. Gahl is a senior investigator in the Medical Genetics Branch and the director of the NIH Undiagnosed Diseases Program.
… He elucidated the basic defects in cystinosis and Salla disease, i.e., deficiencies of the lysosomal membrane … alkaptonuria, autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease, Chediak-Higashi disease, GNE myopathy, and Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome (HPS), a …
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Dr. Gahl honored for his leading efforts to diagnose and treat individuals with rare and undiagnosed diseases.
… involved uncovering the genetic basis of the rare disease Arterial Calcification due to Deficiency of CD73 (or … To date, they have discovered 23 new genetic disorders and disease phenotypes.  "The UDP has been an extraordinary …
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Researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) have developed a new statistical model that can predict the risk for developing diseases by combining information about family member health and lifestyle factors from family members.
… The researchers used type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) as the disease model for their study. An estimated 30 million people … chronic diseases to treat. T2D is known as a complex disease because its development depends strongly on a … either over- or under-predict the patient’s risk for the disease. Such concerns are especially true for younger …
Educational Resources
Autosomal dominance is a pattern of inheritance characteristic of some genetic diseases.
… (one from each parent) to cause the disorder. Huntington’s disease is an example of an autosomal dominant genetic …