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Two grants will support studies on genomic literacy among Africans relating to research conducted in Africa by African investigators.
… in rural and urban populations to gauge how concepts on heritability and genomics are understood in local languages. … especially for populations unfamiliar with the concepts of heritability and genomics. Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, …
Educational Resources
Risk, in the context of genetics, refers to the probability that an individual will be affected by a particular genetic disorder.
National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research
The Director's Report Related documents contain links to materials supplemental to Dr. Eric Green's Director's Report presentation to the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research in September 2020.
Research at NHGRI
The Center for Precision Health Research, formerly Medical Genomics and Metabolic Genetics Branch, studies how health and disease are related to genetic, genomic and metabolic variation.
… CPHR study a broad spectrum of disorders, with a range of heritability from common diseases associated with common …
Research Training
The Summer Internship Program in Biomedical Research provides students the opportunity to perform biomedical research with some of the world's best scientists.
Research at NHGRI
NHGRI researchers develop freely available software and analysis tools to help researchers around the world analyze and explore their genomic data.
… A software suite for quantitative trait and locus-specific heritability estimation and association testing using the …
News Release
A new study examines why some people grow out of childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), while others continue to have symptoms as adults.
Staff
Dr. Sudre is an Associate Investigator in Dr. Philip Shaw's Neurobehavioral Clinical Research within the Social and Behavioral Research Branch
… Choudhury S., Szekely, E. et al. (2017). Estimating the heritability of structural and functional brain connectivity …
News Release
When it comes to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), genetics do make an impact.
News Release
NHGRI researchers have developed the Families Sharing Health Assessment and Risk Evaluation (SHARE) workbook, which helps people use their family history to assess their risk for heart disease, diabetes, breast cancer and colorectal cancer.