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Careers and Training
NHGRI provides funding to support the development and implementation of modules aimed at providing healthcare professionals with genomic medicine training.
… nurses. … Project Title: Preparing providers to integrate polygenic risk scores into clinical care Lead Investigator for Project: …
News Release
When it comes to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), genetics do make an impact.
… significance alone, but together they increase the genetic risk for certain symptoms of the disorder. The more ADHD … Adding them all up can provide you with a 'genetic risk score' (called the polygenic risk score) that can predict the chances of having …
Fact Sheet
Eugenics is the scientifically erroneous and immoral theory of “racial improvement” and “planned breeding,”
… to terminate pregnancies where the fetus is at heightened risk for genetic disorders, such as Down Syndrome and spina … bifida. The emergence of statistical techniques, such as polygenic risk scores, that can estimate risks for more genetically complex …
Event
The NHGRI and NCI held a pre-application webinar on May 15, 2020, for the Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOA) RFA-HG-20-001 and RFA-HG-20-002.
… (FOA) RFA-HG-20-001 and RFA-HG-20-002 entitled "Polygenic Risk Score (PRS) Methods and Analysis for Populations of …
The Genomics Landscape
In the July 2021 issue of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., reflects on the legacy the LINCS program leaves as it has completed its goal of creating a large-scale, systematically generated molecular and cellular dataset.
… $38 million over five years to establish and support the Polygenic Risk MEthods in Diverse populations (PRIMED) Consortium. … robust methods for improving the way that polygenic risk scores (PRS) can be used to predict disease in ancestrally …
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 May 2020.
… PAR-20-101 - Genomic Expert Curation Panels (U24) 18 Polygenic Risk Score Diversity Consortium RFA-HG-20-001 - Polygenic Risk Score (PRS) Methods and Analysis for …
File
… PowerPoint: Development of Polygenic Risk Scores …
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.
… of phenome‐wide association studies (PheWAS), phenotype risk scores (PheRS), work he is continuing here at NHGRI. He has … colocalization analyses, pharmacogenomic investigations, polygenic risk scores (PRS), phenotype risk scores (PheRS), …
News Release
NHGRI researchers will present four platform talks and 55 posters to highlight the institute's diverse portfolio at the 65th annual meeting of ASHG.
… 9. Danielle M. Karyadi: Whole exome sequencing in 75 high-risk families identifies eight previously unknown prostate … with Type 2 Diabetes in Han Chinese. (Complex Traits and Polygenic Disorders) 1816W. David R. Adams: The NIH … West Africans and African Americans. (Complex Traits and Polygenic Disorders) 775F. Cristina M. Justice: Targeted …