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A collaborative large-scale genome sequencing effort to identify rare risk and protective variants contributing to multiple common disease phenotypes.
… Genomics (CCDG) are a collaborative large-scale genome sequencing effort to comprehensively identify rare risk and … that the CCDG program will sequence approximately 100K whole genomes and 125K whole exomes during the life of the program. More information …
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Comparative genomics is a field of biological research in which researchers compare the complete genome sequences of different species.
… biology of living things have changed over time. As DNA sequencing technology becomes more powerful and less … list continues to grow almost daily. In addition to the sequencing of the human genome, which was completed in 2003, … critical data for understanding genetic variation. DNA sequencing centers supported by NHGRI also have sequenced …
The Genomics Landscape
In the October 6, 2022 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., celebrates the 25th anniversary of the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC). a well-respected and highly used large-scale DNA sequencing center that exemplifies the evolution of the field of genomics and the ever-increasing abilities to produce prodigious amounts of genomic data.
… sequence to public databases weekly, as large-scale DNA sequencing had advanced substantially. At that time, it … repertoire, with a partial list of methods including whole-exome sequencing , whole-genome sequencing , RNA sequencing , …
News Release
In a study published in the journal Science, collaborators at NHGRI, the National University of Ireland, Galway, and the Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience at the University of Florida, Augustine, reported that activation of the gene Tfap2 in adult stem cells in Hydractinia can turn those cells into germ cells in a cycle that can repeat endlessly.
… reproductive-based conditions and diseases in humans. “By sequencing and studying the genomes of simpler organisms that … and ourselves. “Having this kind of high-quality, whole-genome sequence data in hand allowed us to quickly … … Hydractinia, germ cells, reproduction, adult stem cells, whole-genome sequence data, CRISPR-Cas9, gene-editing … In a …
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.
… 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 … Program releases first genomic dataset of nearly 100,000 whole genome sequences All of Us: Release of nearly 100,000 …
Media Advisory
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will host researchers from the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium, who have now sequenced the remaining 8% of DNA that was unable to be sequenced by the Human Genome Project and has eluded researchers for nearly two decades.
… What: Virtual press conference to announce T2T consortium sequencing a complete human genome Moderator: Eric Green, …
News Release
A team of NIH-funded researchers have generated the first complete chromosome sequences from non-human primates.
… has only become possible in recent years due to new DNA sequencing technologies and analysis methods. These …
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Cloning is the process of making identical copies of an organism, cell, or DNA sequence.
Research Funding
The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) Pilot Project launched in September 2003 to identify all functional elements in the human genome sequence.
… genome was announced by the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium ( Finishing the euchromatic sequence of … sequences from other vertebrate genomes, identified from whole genome shotgun assemblies or obtained by direct … ENCODE-directed efforts, sequence data generated through whole genome sequencing projects will be used in comparative …
The Genomics Landscape
In the October 2024 issue of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green welcomes James Thomas as the new director for NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC).
… repeats. The researchers applied the tool to study 460 whole-genome sequences, revealing hundreds of mosaic short … Thomas, Ph.D. , as the new director of the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC) . NISC provides high-throughput DNA sequencing services to the NIH intramural research community, …