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Strategic Vision
Staff within the institute and colleagues in the genomics community organized and contributed to the >50 events associated with the strategic planning process (e.g., town halls, dedicated workshops, conference sessions, and webinars) and provided critical feedback.
FAQ
Addressing the COVID-19 pandemic and what it means to the pediatric mitochondrial disease community.
Professional Development Programs
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) seeks qualified physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and genetic counselors interested in acquiring credentials and experience to lead genomic medicine research and implementation programs at the NIH, major medical centers and other organizations.
Healthcare Provider Genomics Education Resource
Discipline-specific genomic competencies are knowledge and skills that a provider needs in order to perform specific functions in genomic healthcare. Competency-based healthcare education is an outcomes-based approach that uses competencies to organize and structure curricula and continuing education.
News Release
Researchers have found powerful clues to why certain processes and systems in the mouse are so different from those in people.
… information to determine when the mouse is an appropriate model to study human biology and disease, and may help to … San Diego. "We have known that the mouse was mostly a good model for humans. We found that many processes and pathways … shared, potentially limiting the mouse's use as a disease model. Mice and humans share approximately 70 percent of the …
News Release
Over the last 20 years, three families have been unknowingly linked to one another by an unknown illness. Researchers at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and other organizations have now identified the cause of the illness, a new disease called CRIA syndrome. The results of their work were published on Dec. 11 in the journal Nature.
… then at over a quarter million people from public sequence databases to see if they encountered the same RIPK1 … the sharing of sequence data in large publicly-accessible databases. We live in a very special time.” It was as if … the sharing of sequence data in large publicly-accessible databases. We live in a very special time. … The RIPK1 gene …
Jobs at NHGRI
NHGRI has four position openings for Health Scientist Administrators (Program Director and Scientific Review Officer). Program Director positions will have a special concentration in informatics and data science and will be located in the Division of Genomic Medicine, the Division of Genome Sciences, or the Office of Genomic Data Science. Scientific Review Officers will reside in the Division of Extramural Operations and will organize peer review meetings for all areas of genomic research at NHGRI.
Educational Resources
A knockout typically refers to an organism that has been genetically engineered to lack one or more specific genes.
… Knockout … A knockout typically refers to an organism that has been genetically engineered to lack one or … to inactivate or remove one or more specific genes from an organism. Scientists create knockout organisms to study the impact of removing a gene from an organism, which often allows them to then learn something …
Educational Resources
Mendelian inheritance refers to certain patterns of how traits are passed from parents to offspring.
Educational Resources
An organelle is a subcellular structure that has one or more specific jobs to perform in the cell, much like an organ does in the body.