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NIH grants aim to gauge if genomics can be used to help diagnose diabetes, manage heart disease and guide cancer clinicians to the most effective drugs.
… Steven Benowitz … New National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants aim to gauge if genomics can be used to … seek to show how using genomic information can impact health and, in particular, how it can be applied in varied … to show that adding genomic information into electronic health records can guide drug prescribing and treatment …
News Release
Genomicists and clinicians are beginning to offer patients genetic testing for a list of treatable diseases apart from the one that brought them into the clinic.
… study that he had joined at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It was expanding to include more people of … ® study, which looks at the role that genes play in health by sequencing most of a person's genes and searching for variants that could cause health problems. At the NIH Clinical Center, researchers took …
Research at NHGRI
Families Sharing Health Assessment and Risk Evaluation (SHARE) helps you and your family learn how your family health history affects your risk for diseases.
… members’ risk for these diseases based on their family health history. After you finish a worksheet, share the … Risk Tool among Low-Income African Americans . Public Health Genomics , 2021. DOI: 10.1159/000517309. Koehly LM , … breast cancer, and colorectal cancer . BMC Public Health,  15: 1120, 2015. DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-2483-x. … …
For Patients and Families
Neglected diseases are conditions that inflict severe health burdens on the world's poorest people.
… Neglected diseases are conditions that inflict severe health burdens on the world's poorest people and are often … … Neglected diseases are conditions that inflict severe health burdens on the world's poorest people. Many of these … migrates to the central nervous system, causing seizures, mental disorders and, ultimately, death. As many as 70,000 …
Staff
Dr. Joshua Denny is the head of the NHGRI Precision Health Informatics Section and Chief Executive Officer of the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program.
… … Dr. Denny’s research interests include use of electronic health records (EHRs) and genomics data from large-scale … the Chief Executive Officer of the National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program. … Dr. Denny’s laboratory … With this mission in mind, those in the Precision Health Informatics Section primarily repurpose health records …
Fact Sheet
Diversity among genomics research participants is essential for improving the health of everyone.
… can identify genomic variants associated with various health outcomes at the individual and population levels. This … better understand how genomics can be used to improve the health and wellbeing of all people. … Based on work completed … All of Us Research Program is working to build a diverse health resource by collecting genome-related data and other …
Event
NHGRI workshop seeking scientific perspectives for relating genomic variation to human phenotype.
… and Interpretation of Variation Associated with Human Health and Disease Panel: Barbara Stranger Anshul Kundaje … and understand the effects of those variants on human health and disease. We seek recommendations for projects, … Identification, Association, and Function in Human Health and Disease … NHGRI workshop seeking scientific …
Research at NHGRI
A list of publications led by or in collaboration with the Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health.
… with the Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health (CRGGH) since 2008. In addition to the citations … risk information in African cleft research. BMC Public Health . 24(1):507. 2024. [ PubMed ]  Chen L, Tian R, Chen G … common African origins to understand human evolution and health. Cell Genom . 3(3):100278. 2023. [ PubMed ]  Meeks …
About NHGRI
NHGRI's commitment to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion within our Institute to achieve the highest level of genomic innovation, reduce health disparities and foster health equity in areas related to genomics and genomic medicine.
… / Houston Methodist Hospital Racial inequities in health and what we can do about them October 8, 2020 David R. Williams, Ph.D. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health … NHGRI is committed to promoting diversity, equity … to achieve the highest level of genomic innovation, reduce health disparities and foster health equity in areas related …
Staff
Dr. Gouveia is a research fellow in the Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health.
… training in genetic epidemiology at the Brazilian Health Institute (Fiocruz-Brazil) and in genomics and … in Dr. Rotimi’s Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health (CRGGH) at the NHGRI. Throughout his career, he has … genetics, epidemiology, genomics, bioinformatics, and health disparities. He has held leadership roles in large …