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Genetic Disorders
Sickle cell disease is a group of inherited red blood cells disorders.
… Sickle cell disease is a group of inherited red blood cell disorders. … Sickle cell disease is the most common inherited blood disorder in the … United States. Approximately 100,000 Americans have the disease. In the United States, sickle cell disease is most …
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NHGRI researchers investigated the Behcet's disease using Illumina's Immunochip.
… Jeannine Mjoseth … Behçet's disease is a disease that destroys blood vessels through systemic … destroying inflammation of the eyes. Research suggests the disease develops due to pathogen exposure, along with a mix …
Educational Resources
Huntington's disease is an inherited disease characterized by the progressive loss of brain and muscle function.
… Huntington's Disease … Huntington's disease is an inherited disease characterized by the progressive loss of brain and …
Research Funding
​The Undiagnosed Diseases Network accelerates discovery and innovation in how we diagnose and treat patients with previously undiagnosed diseases.
… of investigators; (2) facilitate research into the etiology of undiagnosed diseases, by collecting and sharing … that this type of cross-disciplinary approach to disease diagnosis is feasible to implement in academic … of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). The intramural Undiagnosed Disease Program, housed within the NIH Clinical Center and …
Genetic Disorders
Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease is a genetic disorder characterized by the growth of numerous cysts in both kidneys.
… Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is a genetic disorder characterized by the … to kidney failure. … Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is one of the most common forms of polycystic kidney disease. It is present at birth in 1 in 400 to 1 in 1,000 …
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Addressing the COVID-19 pandemic and what it means to the pediatric mitochondrial disease community.
… Children affected by mitochondrial disease have impaired oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS). … nearly all cells of the body, children with mitochondrial disease can have multisystemic problems, especially in organ … a lot of energy. For example, pediatric mitochondrial disease often affects the brain, which may cause children to …
Research at NHGRI
The Metabolic, Cardiovascular and Inflammatory Disease Genomics Branch studies the genomic and social determinants of complex diseases.
… The Metabolic, Cardiovascular and Inflammatory Disease Genomics Branch (MCIDGB) studies the genomic and … geography (e.g., diabetes, hypertension, heart and kidney disease, scleroderma and podoconiosis). MCIDGB researchers … human history and how it informs disease distribution and etiology. Through large genomic initiatives, such as the …
Research Funding
The Multi-Omics for Health and Disease Consortium aims to advance the application of multi-omic technologies to study health and disease in ancestrally diverse populations.
… exposures, omics, and childhood NAFLD (LEON) Study Disease Study Site** Stephanie Christenson*, Neeta Thakur, … of California, San Francisco EXposomic Profiling in Airway disease to uNravel Determinants of disease in Asthma … While this program may provide some insights into disease etiology, its primary goal is to validate and enhance …
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NIH researchers have discovered a rare and sometimes lethal inflammatory disease - otulipenia - that primarily affects young children.
… have discovered a rare and sometimes lethal inflammatory disease - otulipenia - that primarily affects young children. … define otulipenia, an early-onset autoinflammatory disease. Contributing to the work were researchers from the … otulipenia is a rare and sometimes lethal inflammatory disease that causes fever, skin rashes, diarrhea and joint …
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Baylor College of Medicine. Houston and the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee will be providing DNA sequencing for the Undiagnosed Diseases Network.
… variants in patients' genome that may be the cause of a disease. Genome sequencing is an increasingly fast and … especially how their function or malfunction may affect a disease condition. Investigation of gene function is a … which researchers will develop a pipeline of models for disease-causing mutations in a broad range of human genes.  …