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Sex linked is a trait in which a gene is located on a sex chromosome.
… Sex Linked … Sex linked is a trait in which a gene is located on a sex chromosome. … Cell, Mutation, Gene, Sex Chromosome … Sex-linked, as related to genetics, … a sex-linked disorder. … Sex linked is a trait in which a gene is located on a sex chromosome. … Educational Resources …
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Epigenomics is a field in which researchers chart the locations and understand the functions of all the chemical tags that mark the genome.
… epigenomic compounds attach to DNA and modify its function, they are said to have "marked" the genome. These … DNA and DNA-associated proteins in the cell, which alter gene expression, and are heritable (via meiosis and mitosis). … … The human genome contains two copies of every gene-one copy inherited from the mother and one from the …
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Dr. Shawn Burgess is the deputy director of NHGRI's Intramural Research Program.
… the last decade has been focused on developing efficient gene knockout technologies in zebrafish, coupled with efficient phenotyping of the gene disruptions. … For the last decade, the Burgess lab has … of the protein-coding genes could be assigned a putative function based on at least one identified Pfam domain. …
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Dr. Elise Feingold is a scientific program manager in NHGRI's Division of Genome Sciences.
… (then NCHGR) in 1992 as a program director focused on gene discovery, gene expression and functional genomics. Since 2019, Dr. … with the National Cancer Institute, the Mammalian Gene Collection project, which created a comprehensive …
News Release
NIH will renew three awards totaling $73.2 million over five years to continue building the Clinical Genome (ClinGen) resource, an effort to collect and archive information about clinically relevant genes and genomic variants for use in precision medicine.
Educational Resources
Deoxyribonucleic acid (abbreviated DNA) is the molecule that carries genetic information for the development and functioning of an organism.
News Release
CRGGH researchers Amy Bentley and Charles Rotimi have just completed a large-scale, multi-ancestry genome-wide analysis of gene × smoking interactions on the concentration of serum lipids, including high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL), and triglycerides.
… a large-scale, multi-ancestry genome-wide analysis of gene × smoking interactions on the concentration of serum … and triglycerides. … The study was conducted through the Gene-Lifestyle Interactions Working Group of the Cohorts for … ancestry, highlighting the importance of diversity in gene × lifestyle studies. The manuscript describing these …
Clinical Research
The CLINSEQ® Study seeks to learn about the role that your genes play in your health.
… Free CAT scan to detect coronary artery disease.  Finding gene changes that are important to your health and/or the … LG. Determining the prevalence of McArdle disease from gene frequency by analysis of next-generation sequencing … iterative phenotyping for genome-wide analysis of loss-of-function mutations. Am J Hum Genet , 96(6):913-25. 2015. [ …
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Dr. Michael Erdos is an Associate Investigator in the Molecular Genetics Section of the Center for Precision Health Research.
… research determining the effect of genetic variation on gene function and identifying primary targets for potential … kinase signaling and the search for the IL2Rg gene. In 1993, he moved to the NHGRI Intramural Research …
Educational Resources
Positional cloning is a laboratory technique used to locate the position of a disease-associated gene along the chromosome.
… used to locate the position of a disease-associated gene along the chromosome. … Candidate, Gene, Chromosome, Contig, Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA), Gene, Linkage … Positional cloning is a laboratory approach …