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The Genomics Landscape
In the June 2020 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green details NHGRI's new Diversity in Genomics Workforce Initiative.
… Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D. … This issue of  The Genomics Landscape  comes at an especially difficult … leading up to the 30th anniversary of the launch of the Human Genome Project in October 2020. I encourage you to … satellite) announced the completion of a “ working draft ” sequence of the human genome. This ceremonial event took …
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NHGRI celebrated the 15th anniversary of the Human Genome Project with a "15 for 15" Celebration that commemorates the genomic advances since 2003.
… Palmer … On April 25th - National DNA Day - the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) will celebrate the 15th anniversary of the completion of the Human Genome Project. To commemorate …
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Extending noninvasive prenatal screening to all 24 human chromosomes can detect genetic disorders that explain miscarriage and abnormalities during pregnancy.
… to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and other institutions. Because of the way data … Credit: Getty Images.   The investigators analyzed DNA sequence data from nearly 90,000 samples of maternal plasma, … authors from Illumina Inc., in Redwood City, California. Reference: Pertile, M., et al. Rare Autosomal Trisomies, …
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A collaborative large-scale genome sequencing effort to identify rare risk and protective variants contributing to multiple common disease phenotypes.
… Disease Genomics (CCDG) are a collaborative large-scale genome sequencing effort to comprehensively identify rare … disease phenotypes. … The CCDG initiative explores a range of diseases with the goal of: Undertaking variant discovery … NHLBI. We currently estimate that the CCDG program will sequence approximately 100K whole genomes and 125K whole …
About Genomics
Resources for understanding the first truly complete sequence of the Y chromosome, the final human chromosome to be fully sequenced.
… The Y chromosome is one of two human sex chromosomes, the other being the X chromosome. When researchers completed the first human genome sequence 20 years ago, gaps were left in the sequences of
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.
… operating based on last year’s budget — awaiting passage of a new budget for the current fiscal year. The CR allows … in its seventh of 13 years) was adding megabases of genome sequence to public databases weekly, as large-scale DNA … a program that generated high-quality sequences of a reference set of cDNA clones  representing human and mouse …
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NSIGHT explores the implications, challenges and opportunities with the use of genomic sequence information in the newborn period.
… The NSIGHT program was developed from the advice of experts who attended the December 13-14, 2010 meeting, … Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the National Human Genome … Green Alan Beggs Brigham and Women's Hospital Genome Sequence-Based Screening for Childhood Risk and Newborn …
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Researchers analyzing human, fly, and worm genomes have found these species have key genomic processes in common, reflecting their shared ancestry.
… Steven Benowitz … Researchers analyzing human, fly, and worm genomes have found that these species have a number of key genomic processes in common, reflecting their shared … modENCODE projects - including more than 67 billion gene sequence readouts - to discover gene expression patterns …
The Genomics Landscape
In the May 2018 edition of The Genomics Landscape, NHGRI Director Eric Green highlights the Human Genome Project receiving the 2017 Prince Mahidol Award.
… news was worth waiting for! Overall, NIH was the recipient of an 8.8% increase (relative to Fiscal Year 2017), with … 19: NHGRI's 2020 Vision for Genomics " to listen. … The  Genome: Unlocking Life's Code  exhibition is currently … Award (in the Field of Medicine 2017) recognizes the Human Genome Project for its collaborative success that has …
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NIH is awarding $18.9 million towards research that aims to accelerate the use of genome sequencing in clinical care for all individuals.
… Sheena Faherty, Ph.D. … The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is awarding $18.9 million towards research that aims to accelerate the use of genome sequencing in clinical care. The new awards will … Consortium , initiated in 2010 and funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the National …