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Fact Sheet
Your mental and physical health are deeply connected. Mental health is important for your health and quality of life. 
… therapy clinical trial. Your thoughts, feelings, beliefs and attitudes can have a strong impact on your physical health. Because of this, it’s important to care for your mental and physical health as you consider a gene therapy clinical …
Organizational Structure
NHGRI’s Training, Diversity and Health Equity Office (TiDHE) works to champion a diverse genomics workforce, address health disparities and reach a more equitable and healthy society.
… NHGRI’s Training, Diversity and Health Equity (TiDHE) Office develops and supports initiatives that expand opportunities for genomics education and careers; cultivates genomics training …
News Release
Top genome scientists from over 20 countries have joined forces in an effort to improve cooperation and coordination of genomic medicine research worldwide.
… - the effort to turn genomic discoveries into tools and therapies to prevent, delay or cure disease-is going global. … Global Leaders in Genomic Medicine On the heels of … wasteful duplication and speed progress in identifying genomics-based interventions and translating them to the …
Event
The NHGRI Center for Precision Health Research sponsors a monthly series of talks by intramural and special guest speakers on research relevant to the use of genomic data and large-scale electronic health record information to improve health.
… The NHGRI Center for Precision Health Research (CPHR) sponsors a monthly series of talks by intramural and special guest speakers on research relevant to the use of genomic data and large-scale electronic health record information to …
About Genomics
A introduction to basic concepts in genomics to help you understand your genome, how it works, and how it impacts your health.
… help you make choices about how to treat or manage your health. … Pharmacogenomic testing tells you about how you … healthcare provider about how to best treat your condition and avoid side effects. … Reproductive testing  is related to … ancestry and the health of you and your family. … One way genomics research can benefit you is through the emerging …
News Release
Healthcare professionals now have access to a range of educational and clinical genomics resources on the Genetics/Genomics Competency Center website
… professionals now have access to a variety of educational and clinical genomics resources thanks to a new partnership between the … Institute (NHGRI), part of the National Institutes of Health, and several professional medical societies. The …
News Release
NIH-backed African scientists are engaged in a global research endeavor to understand the genetic basis of disease in all populations.
… Ph.D. … NIH-backed African scientists are engaged in a global research endeavor to understand the genetic basis of … have shown that African populations contain the oldest and most diverse set of human genes. However, most studies of … to correct this misunderstanding," said Dr. De Vries. "Genomics research is very new on parts of the continent and …
Research Funding
The Multi-Omics for Health and Disease Consortium aims to advance the application of multi-omic technologies to study health and disease in ancestrally diverse populations.
… integration of environmental exposures, omics, and childhood NAFLD (LEON) Study Disease Study Site** … Multi-Omics at the Intersections of Environment, Diabetes, and Kidney Disease: A Multi-Omics for Health and Disease Study Site Disease Study Site** Krzysztof …
News Release
NHGRI has established the Office of Training, Diversity and Health Equity (TiDHE) to enable the highest level of genomic innovation by fostering diversity and health equity in genomics and genomic medicine. It will also serve as the central coordinating office for training and career development across the Institute.
… office to help achieve goals for training a more diverse genomics workforce and addressing health disparities. … The National Human Genome Research …
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Researchers have conducted the first study to look at the genomic underpinnings of obesity in continental Africans and African Americans.
… genomic underpinnings of obesity in continental Africans and African Americans. They discovered that approximately 1 … of obesity in people of African ancestry. Obesity is a global health problem, contributing to premature death and … NHGRI's Metabolic, Cardiovascular and Inflammatory Disease Genomics Branch and director of the Center for Research on …