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News Release
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.  …
News Release
The Undiagnosed Diseases Network has opened an online patient application portal called the UDN Gateway.
Research at NHGRI
The Genetic Disease Research Branch studies how genetic changes affect the structure and function of gene products leading to human disease.
… The Genetic Disease Research Branch studies the mechanisms by which … structure and function of gene products leading to human disease. … A major focus of the branch's research lies in … signaling pathways and transcription factors contribute to disease. Our investigators use genetics and genomic …
News Release
NHGRI will fund a set of genome sequencing and analysis centers whose research will focus on understanding the genomic bases of common and rare human diseases.
… part of NIH, today launched the Centers for Common Disease Genomics (CCDG), which will use genome sequencing to … the genomic contributions to common diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, stroke and autism. NHGRI also announced … for exploring how the genome plays a role in human disease," said NHGRI Director Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D. "Our …
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 (EXPAND-Asthma) Center Disease Study Site** …
CRGGH is now part of the newly-created Metabolic, Cardiovascular, and Inflammatory Disease Genomics Branch.
… newly-created Metabolic, Cardiovascular, and Inflammatory Disease Genomics Branch (MCIDGB). … As described by NHGRI … joins NHGRI's Metabolic, Cardiovascular, and Inflammatory Disease Genomics Branch … CRGGH is now part of the … newly-created Metabolic, Cardiovascular, and Inflammatory Disease Genomics Branch. ​ … Branch Chief Charles Rotimi, …
Clinical Research
A study with the goal of finding the genetic cause of familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) and several novel and undiagnosed causes of autoinflammatory disease.
… several novel and undiagnosed causes of autoinflammatory disease. For more information, see Protocol 94-HG-0105 or … of patients have clinical features of autoinflammatory disease without a good explanation. Our goal is to discover … Syndrome (MWS) Neonatal Onset Multisystem Inflammatory Disease (NOMID) Undifferentiated autoinflammatory disorders …
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 … as well as to understand human history and how it informs disease distribution and etiology. Through large genomic …
News Release
NIH researchers demonstrated that gene therapy may be the best method for correcting the single faulty gene that causes Niemann-Pick disease, type C1.
… correcting the single faulty gene that causes Niemann-Pick disease, type C1 (NPC1). The gene therapy involved inserting … a functional copy of the NPC1 gene into mice with the disease; the treated animals were then found to have less … in the journal Human Molecular Genetics . Niemann-Pick disease is a rare and fatal disorder of the central nervous …
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Researchers with support from NIH will conduct research into the genetic underpinnings of Alzheimer's disease.
… research into the genetic underpinnings of Alzheimer's disease, analyzing how genome sequences-the order of chemical … contribute to increased risk or protect against the disease. The NIH awarded grants for using innovative new … into why some people with known risks do not develop the disease. … The awards, expected to total $24 million over …