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NIH and Inova Health are launching The Genomic Ascertainment Cohort, a pilot project that will examine gene and gene variant influence on phenotypes.
… Project and the Exome Aggregation Consortium (ExAC) harbor large numbers of genotypes (an individual's collection of … and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS). "This is large-scale sharing of data and research volunteers. We will … already sequenced cohorts and making them available to large numbers of researchers." A researcher might locate a …
News Release
A two-day international gathering on genomic medicine from more than 25 countries recommended ways to improve the use of genomics in medicine.
… of Sciences in Washington, D.C., was that both relatively large countries (Canada and the United Kingdom) and small … diseases and cancer as a first step towards the eventual large scale implementation of genomic medicine. "The mission …
Fact Sheet
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers used state-of-the-art genomic sequencers to quickly sequence the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
… vaccine. The speed and efficiency of this process can make large amounts of mRNA in a short period of time. … … mRNA …
News Release
More research must be done to understand the interactions of ancient genes with modern environments.
… African sleeping sickness . "There is a great need for large-scale genetic investigations of diverse groups of …
Fact Sheets
Epigenomics is a field in which researchers chart the locations and understand the functions of all the chemical tags that mark the genome.
Staff
William J. Pavan, Ph.D. is the chief of NHGRI's Genetic Disease Research Branch.
… to identify expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) in a large cohort of primary melanocytes, revealing extensive data …
Staff
Kris Wetterstrand is the program operations lead in the NIH Division of Extramural Operatons.
… of DNA production and cost data from the NHGRI Large-Scale Sequencing Program. Ms. Wetterstrand has over ten … Research (from 1999 to 2010), participating in the NHGRI Large-scale Sequencing Program, which managed the Human …
Fact Sheets
Genomics is the study of all of a person's genes (the genome), including interactions of those genes with each other and with the person's environment.
… … Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is the chemical compound that contains the instructions needed to develop and … at a time. To assemble the sequence of all the bases in a large piece of DNA such as a gene, researchers need to read … deletion, or addition of a single base pair or as large as a deletion of thousands of bases. … The Human Genome …
Policies and Guidance
A webpage with information and associated FAQs that describe various expectations for data sharing that are specific to NHGRI-supported studies.
… Studies Study registration in dbGaP is required for large-scale human genomic studies, including those submitting … such as those listed by the Johns Hopkins Libraries or the UK Data Archive . Certain studies, for … smaller project sizes that do not meet the definition of “large-scale” according to the NIH guidance regarding scope of …
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 September 2020.
… Technology Development (R43/R44) RFA-HG-20-014 - Novel Synthetic Nucleic Acid Technology Development (R01) RFA-HG-20-015 - Novel Synthetic Nucleic Acid Technology Development (R21) RFA-HG-20-016 - Novel Synthetic Nucleic Acid Technology Development (R43/R44) …