News

  • 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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  • Dec 2020

    Variation in genes associated with viral entry of SARS-CoV-2 unlikely to influence COVID-19 morbidity and mortality

    In a study published in the journal Infection, Genetics and Evolution, scientists analyzed genetic variants from publicly available datasets including the 1000 Genomes Project to determine whether differences in genetic variation across populations may account for the observation that certain populations and ethnic groups are disproportionately affected by COVID-19.

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  • Sep 2020

    Human Pangenome Reference Consortium

    Coriell is a proud partner of the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium. A major goal of the project is to create a genome reference that is representative of human genetic diversity.

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  • Jul 2020

    GnomAD Consortium Details Range of Human Genetic Variation from Large Dataset

    In a study published in the journal Nature, scientists from the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD) Consortium generated a reference map of structural variants from over 14,800 human genome sequences representing diverse global populations.

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  • May 2020

    New SNP Search Tool

    NHGRI Repository catalog users now have a new tool to identify cell lines and DNA needed for their research. SNP Search allows users to search for a specific genetic variant among Coriell-housed samples that were included in the Phase 3 1000 Genomes Project whole genome sequencing dataset (see more details here).

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  • Feb 2020

    Psychiatric Genomics Consortium Study Reveals that Many Psychiatric Disorders Arise from Common Genes

    In a study published in the journal Cell, scientists from the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium analyzed genetic data from over 600,000 people to see if they could identify genetic variants that increase the risk for one or more psychiatric disorders to study how the variants may contribute to a broad spectrum of mental health disorders.

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  • Dec 2019

    Jumping genes can cause rare developmental disorders in children

    In a study published in the journal Nature Communications, scientists studied the genomes of more than 9,700 children with severe undiagnosed developmental disorders to search for genetic changes that may lead to disorders such as autism, epilepsy, intellectual disabilities and heart defects.

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  • Oct 2019

    The human pangenome reference consortium looks to improve the human genome reference sequence

    New grants from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) will enable scientists to generate and maintain a new and comprehensive human genome reference sequence that represents genetic diversity in the human population.

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