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NHGRI convened geneticists, biologists, clinicians, bioinformatics specialists and more to provide expert advice on the future of its Genome Sequencing Program.
… Steven Benowitz … On July 28-29, 2014, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) convened geneticists, … provide expert advice on the future of its flagship Genome Sequencing Program (GSP). … The two-day meeting, titled, … This research should help determine the value of whole genome sequencing (examining all of the genome, not …
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Researchers, clinicians, and computational biologists meet to consider future opportunities for NHGRI's Genome Sequencing Program.
… Steven Benowitz … Genome researchers, clinicians, computational biologists and … scope and future opportunities for the National Human Genome Research Institute's (NHGRI) flagship Genome Sequencing Program (GSP) at a July 28 - 29 meeting in …
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Researchers used whole genome sequence data to investigate the origin of the mutation that causes "sickling" of red blood cells.
… Research on Genomics and Global Health (CRGGH), have used whole genome sequence data to investigate the origin of the … Look at the Origin of the Sickle Allele … Researchers used whole genome sequence data to investigate the origin of the …
Research Funding
Funded in 2016 to harmonize, access, and analyze the data produced by the sequencing centers.
… The Genome Sequencing Program Analysis Centers (GSPACs) were funded in … to harmonize, access, and analyze the data produced by the sequencing centers. The GSPACs undertake novel, … of Pharmacy … Participants … Grantees … Program Staff … Genome Sequencing Program Analysis Centers … Funded in 2016 …
Research Funding
The Genome Sequencing Program uses genome sequencing to identify genes and genomic variants underlying human inherited disease.
… The Genome Sequencing Program is consists of the following centers … multiple funding opportunity announcements. … The NHGRI Genome Sequencing Program (GSP) has evolved from NIH's … the integration and efficiency of the program as a whole. See: Genome Sequencing Program Coordinating Center …
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The Clinical Sequencing Exploratory Research Consortium has offered an ethical framework to guide pediatricians in pursuing clinical sequencing studies.
… Bruce Agnew … More than many other diagnostic technologies, genome sequencing carries the possibility of incidental or … what information they should disclose, and to whom, when genome sequencing uncovers signs of possible genetic risk for …
About Genomics
In 2003, an accurate and complete human genome sequence was finished two years ahead of schedule and at a cost less than the original estimated budget.
… In 2003, an accurate and complete human genome sequence was finished and made available to scientists … the project took on a wide range of other goals, from sequencing the genomes of model organisms to developing new technologies to study whole genomes. Besides delivering on the stated goals below, …
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NHGRI-funded CSER investigators and colleagues point to need for greater evidence that DNA sequencing helps patients.
… … In the nearly four years since its launch, the Clinical Sequencing Exploratory Research (CSER) program has made … care. … CSER, which is funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the National Cancer … and entire exomes (the protein-coding portion of the genome), Dr. Rehm suggested that there may be too much recent …
Talking Glossary
The genome reference sequence provides a general framework and is not the DNA sequence of a single person.
… Human Genome Reference Sequence … The genome reference sequence provides a general framework and is not the DNA sequence of a single person. … A human genome reference sequence is an accepted representation of …
The Genomics Landscape
In the April 7, 2022 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., highlights the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium's publishing of a collection of papers that reported the first truly complete sequence of the human genome.
… significance of their results.   …  In 2003, the Human Genome Project ended with the generation of an essentially … approach of using the best-available technologies for sequencing DNA and pushing them to their absolute limits. In … Program has released its first genomic dataset , including whole-genome sequences from nearly 100,000 participants from …