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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.
… Genomics is the study of all of a person's genes (the genome), including interactions of those genes with each … word.  … An organism's complete set of DNA is called its genome. Virtually every single cell in the body contains a … usual processes and lead to a disease such as cancer.  … Sequencing simply means determining the exact order of the …
Staff
Dr. Gerard Bouffard directs the Bioinformatics Group at the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC).
… University, where he combined his interests in early genome sequencing of the Escherichia coli genome with the nascent field of bioinformatics. He used …
News Release
Small businesses with NHGRI grants were instrumental in contributing to the completion of the human genome sequence, redefining the future of genomics.
… in contributing to the completion of the human genome sequence, redefining the future of genomics. … When … grants provided by institutes such as the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), among others. Small … development ecosystem. Until recently, almost all genome sequencing methods required researchers to extract DNA from a …
Staff
Dr. Mullikin was the former director of the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center (NISC).
… skills to the genomics field in 1997, just as the Human Genome Project was scaling up. He has been involved in many aspects of the Human Genome Project as well as numerous other genome projects. His … to analyze large data sets generated by systematic DNA sequencing projects. A highly skilled computational …
News Release
On June 26, 2000, nearly 10 years into the 13-year project, President Bill Clinton announced an important milestone for the Human Genome Project at a major White House ceremony.
… Clinton june 26, 2000 … The signature goal of the Human Genome Project (HGP) was to generate a sequence of the three … the completion of a working draft sequence of the human genome.   Standing beside President Clinton was Francis … Richard Wilson, Ph.D., who was co-director of the Genome Sequencing Center at Washington University School of Medicine …
Clinical Research
The CLINSEQ® Study seeks to learn about the role that your genes play in your health.
… your health. We do this by getting a DNA sample from you, sequencing most or all of your genes, and comparing that to … on its head. Trans-NIH Study Explores Medical Role for Genome Sequencing 2007: Patients with Cardiovascular Disease … 6503 participants: challenges of variant classification. Genome Res , 2015. [In Press]  Lewis KL, Han PK, Hooker GW, …
News Release
A team of NIH-funded researchers have generated the first complete chromosome sequences from non-human primates.
… Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), part of NIH, and an author of the study. “Only the chimpanzee genome sequence was fairly complete before this, but even … has only become possible in recent years due to new DNA sequencing technologies and analysis methods. These …
Educational Resources
Cloning is the process of making identical copies of an organism, cell, or DNA sequence.
The Genomics Landscape
In the October 1, 2020 edition of The Genomics Landscape, Dr. Eric Green reflects on the last 30 years since the launch of the Human Genome Project.
… Green, M.D., Ph.D. … Thirty years ago, today, the Human Genome Project (HGP) officially launched. I was there on the … been awarded one of the first center grants for the Human Genome Project by the then-named National Center for Human … These would be steppingstones to the signature goal of sequencing the entire human genome. Previous work had started …
Research Training
The Clinical Center Genomics Opportunity promotes precision medicine and development of infrastructure to support clinical genomics at the NIH Clinical Center.
… Office of Intramural Research (OIR), the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), the Deputy Director of … Award Program that is administered by OIR, reduced fee sequencing at the NIH Intramural Sequencing Center, clinical support from NHGRI regarding …