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​The Undiagnosed Diseases Network accelerates discovery and innovation in how we diagnose and treat patients with previously undiagnosed diseases.
… 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 …
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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 … Investigator: Brett H. Graham, M.D. The study will entail cell culture and fruit fly experiments through which … will use a mouse model of the gene mutation as well as cell culture studies.  University of California Los Angeles, …
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 … systems, including genetically altered mice and in vitro cell and organ culture systems, are major components of these …
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The Undiagnosed Diseases Network has opened an online patient application portal called the UDN Gateway.
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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 …
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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** …
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 … Haploinsufficiency of A20 (HA20) Sideroblastic Anemia, B-cell Immunodeficiency, Periodic Fevers and Developmental …
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, …
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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 letters in a cell's DNA-may contribute to increased risk or protect against the disease. The NIH awarded grants for using innovative new …