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A collaborative large-scale genome sequencing effort to identify rare risk and protective variants contributing to multiple common disease phenotypes.
… The Centers for Common Disease Genomics (CCDG) are a collaborative large-scale genome sequencing effort to comprehensively identify rare risk and protective variants … designs to better understand the general principles of genomic architecture underlying common, complex inherited …
News Release
NHGRI will fund a set of genome sequencing and analysis centers whose research will focus on understanding the genomic bases of common and rare human diseases.
… centers whose research will focus on understanding the genomic bases of common and rare human diseases. … The … Disease Genomics (CCDG), which will use genome sequencing to explore the genomic contributions to common diseases such as heart disease, …
News Release
NHGRI will highlight rare disease research that benefits affected patients and provides insights into more common disorders on Rare Disease Day.
… Institute (NHGRI) researchers are highlighting rare disease research that benefits affected patients and also provides insights into more common disorders. … They are underlining this important … NIH , a day-long symposium that is part of a global effort to raise awareness of rare diseases. Several NHGRI staff …
The Genomics Landscape
In the November 2019 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green highlights the International Common Disease Alliance's scientific plenary and launch meeting in September, which included an international panel on opportunities emerging outside the U.S., North America, and Europe; discussions about polygenic risk scores; and an overview about data platforms, data sharing, and ethics.
… Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D. … To productively use a long, blank (and boring) hallway near … on a new webpage dedicated to the life of Lacks and the contributions of HeLa cells to biomedical research that can … work on the human skin microbiome and the use of genomic tools to advance the tracking and control of …
Policy Issues
Revisions to the Common Rule modernize, simplify, and enhance oversight for human subjects research in the United States.
… The final version of the Common Rule was published in the Federal Register on January … Rulemaking (NPRM) on September 8, 2015. The revisions aim to "modernize, simplify, and enhance" oversight for human … or investigate potential public health signals, onset of disease outbreaks, or conditions of public health …