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The Genomics Landscape
In the November 2019 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green highlights the International Common Disease Alliance's scientific plenary and launch meeting in September, which included an international panel on opportunities emerging outside the U.S., North America, and Europe; discussions about polygenic risk scores; and an overview about data platforms, data sharing, and ethics.
… Green, M.D., Ph.D. … To productively use a long, blank (and boring) hallway near my office in Building 31 on the NIH … and the field of genomics. …   The International Common Disease Alliance (ICDA) was recently established as a forum … work on the human skin microbiome and the use of genomic tools to advance the tracking and control of …
News Release
NHGRI researchers have discovered that Mediterranean populations may be more susceptible to an autoinflammatory disease because of evolutionary pressure to survive the bubonic plague.
… Prabarna Ganguly, Ph.D. … Genomic variants that cause common periodic fever have spread in … research was provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the National Institute of Arthritis …
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 muscle function. … Huntington's Disease, Genetic Disease, … disorder associated with the progressive loss of brain and muscle function. Symptoms usually develop during middle …
Policy Issues
Genome editing is currently being applied to research on cancer, mental health, rare diseases, and many other disease areas.
… to research on cancer, mental health, rare diseases, and many other disease areas. … Basic research exploring human and nonhuman … need to learn more about how genes are controlled and how variants in these "controlling" regions of the genome are …
News Release
Researchers explored patients', parents' and physicians' perspectives on the use of CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing to reverse sickle cell disease.
… of its kind, researchers explored patients', parents' and physicians' perspectives on the use of CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing to reverse sickle cell disease (SCD).  … A First-of-its-Kind Study CRISPR-Cas9 is a … will let researchers correct the SCD mutation by removing and replacing it with a normal gene, while the second …
Health
A polygenic risk score is one way by which people can learn what their risk of developing a disease is, based on the total number of genomics variants related to the disease.
… two classes: those that are associated with a single gene and those that are influenced by multiple genes and … making each of us unique. These differences, called genomic variants, occur at specific locations within the DNA. DNA is …
Staff
Dr. Daniel Gilchrist is a program director of Computational Genomics and Data Science in NHGRI's Division of Genome Science.
… a portfolio of grants focused on functional genomics and computational genomics and data science. He is also part … works towards systematic understanding of the effects of genomic variation on genome function and phenotype. Prior to … biology, functional DNA elements, disease-linked genomic variants … Daniel Gilchrist, Encyclopedia of DNA Elements, …
Clinical Research
This team-based clinical service is provided by NHGRI to Intramural Investigators employing exome/genome sequencing.
… Secondary findings explained, eligible protocols, and services offered … What should I consider before … data for the presence of possible actionable secondary variants. Any secondary variants found in the research data will be clinically …
Research Funding
ClinGen will advance genomics in clinical care and improve our understanding of phenotypic and functional effects of genetic variants and their clinical value.
… Medical and research centers are increasingly sequencing patient … However, it is difficult to identify which sequence variants are relevant to disease. As a result, information on only a few genomic variants is used in clinical practice. One factor …
15 Ways Genomics Influences Our World
​Genomics is helping us understand what makes each of us different and what makes us the same.
… is helping us understand what makes each of us different and what makes us the same. … Did you know that at the … Project, researchers began developing tools to detect genomic differences between people. When scientists agreed to … today, researchers are still  discovering new types of variants  within human genomes. Human genomic variation is …