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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. …
News Release
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 …
The Genomics Landscape
In the January 2020 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green highlights the newly developed polygenic risk scores webpage, which provides graphical and textual information about polygenic risk scores, describes polygenic traits, introduces how polygenic risk scores can be calculated, and explains how such scores can be interpreted.
… to be associated with long QT syndrome, a congenital heart condition that predisposes patients to dangerous … definitively associated with the most common form of the disease. The panel’s results were published in the journal … Genomics experts dispute nine genes linked to congenital heart condition Notable accomplishments in genomic medicine …
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Researchers build a statistical model using family health history to improve disease risk assessment
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 … diseases such as hypertension, high cholesterol and heart disease. In contrast, Dr. Marcum and his colleagues …
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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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 …
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An interview with Meru Sadhu, an Earl Stadtman Investigator and head of the systems biology and genome engineering section within the NHGRI Intramural Research Program, where he talks about his research and why yeast have a special place in his heart.
… his research and why yeast have a special place in his heart. He even provides a small gardening tip. This … his research and why yeast have a special place in his heart. … An interview with Meru Sadhu, an Earl Stadtman … his research and why yeast have a special place in his heart. … Profile …
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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 …