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  • Feb 2024

    Potential Ethical Issues Associated with the Creation and Use of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (iPSC) Lines Derived from NHGRI-Supported Sample Collections

    In recent NHGRI Meeting report, the ethical issues associated with the creation and use of induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) Lines derived from NHGRI-supported sample collections was discussed.

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  • Oct 2023

    Studying Arthritis, Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis

    In two recent publications, researchers have used data and samples from the 1000 Genomes Project to study arthritis, osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.

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  • Jun 2023

    Studying Cardiovascular Disease

    In two recent publications, researchers have used data and samples from the 1000 Genomes Project to study cardiovascular disease.

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  • Mar 2023

    Studying Cancer

    Included are two recent publications where researchers have used data and samples from the 1000 Genomes Project to study cancer.

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  • Nov 2022

    Studying Pharmacogenetics

    Two recent publications have used data and samples from the 1000 Genomes Project to study pharmacogenetics. Pharmacogenetics is the study of genetic variation that impacts how we respond to medications.

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  • Aug 2022

    Studying Cancer with the 1000 Genomes Project Data

    In two recent publications, researchers used data from the 1000 Genomes Project to study cancer.

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  • Jun 2022

    Studying Alzheimer’s disease

    Two recent publications have used data from the 1000 Genomes Project to study Alzheimer’s disease.

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  • Dec 2021

    Investigating inherited risks for heart disease.

    Two recent studies used data from the 1000 Genomes Project to investigate inherited risk for heart disease in children and adults.

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  • Oct 2021

    High Molecular Weight DNA Now Available from NIGMS and NHGRI Collections

    The NIGMS Human Genetic Cell Repository (HGCR) and NHGRI Sample Repository for Human Genetic Research (SRHGR) now offer high molecular weight (HMW) DNA samples isolated from cell lines in the collections. HMW DNA is useful for long-read next-generation sequencing and studies that investigate large-scale genomic variation such as structural variation.

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  • Mar 2021

    New Approaches to Polygenic Risk for Complex Disease

    Two recent studies used data from the 1000 Genomes Project to study polygenic risk scores, which use genetic information from many genes across the genome to predict inherited risk of developing common, complex diseases.

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