Sentences with phrase «human genetic research»

«The basic message of our study is that DNA is not destiny,» says Sekar Kathiresan, MD, director of the Center for Human Genetic Research at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), senior author of the NEJM report.

In 2004 Guilherme Neves and Andrew Chess, now at the Center for Human Genetic Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, tracked the roles played by other genes on chromosome 21 — in this case using a fruit fly as the model.

Yet, SVs remain overlooked in human genetic research studies due to the limited power of short - read sequencing methods (exome and whole genome sequencing) to resolve large variants, which often involve repetitive DNA.

There is a legitimate fear among some scientists and ethicists that any ban or moratorium on research into human cloning would also prohibit other promising (and perhaps less morally complicated) forms of human genetic research.

GenConnect is a searchable alphabetical listing of over 300 organizations worldwide that are involved in setting policy regarding the legal, ethical, and social issues that stem from human genetic research.

Dr. Ressler's lab focuses on translational research bridging molecular neurobiology in animal models with human genetic research on emotion, particularly fear and anxiety disorders.

Dr. Sekar Kathiresan and his team of investigators, Pradeep Natarajan, MD, and research coordinator Erina Kii in the Center for Human Genetic Research at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), are looking for a needle in a haystack.

He's with the Center for Human Genetic Research at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Advancements in human genetic research could lead to improved patient care, but safeguards are needed to protect against the misuse...

«Fascinating genetic studies had been done on SMCHD1 that linked the gene to FSHD2, a rare muscular dystrophy involving the interaction of multiple genetic sites, but it had never been connected to craniofacial abnormalities,» says Michael Talkowski, PhD, of the MGH Center for Human Genetic Research, co-senior author of the Nature Genetics paper.

«Most previous research into ways of delaying the onset of HD symptoms have focused on studying the mutant protein in cells or in animal models, but the relevance of abnormalities in those systems to what actually happens in patients remains a huge assumption,» says James Gusella, PhD, director of the Center for Human Genetic Research (CHGR) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), corresponding author of the Cell paper.

Further studies by Pamela Sklar, associate director of the Psychiatric and Neurodevelopmental Genetics Unit in the Center for Human Genetic Research at the Massachusetts General Hospital, have suggested that other parts of the gene might also be involved.

Dr. Ressler's Neurobiology of Fear Laboratory, founded in 2001 at Emory University and relocated to McLean Hospital in 2015, investigates the molecular, genetic, epigenetic, and neural circuit mechanisms underlying fear processes through an integration of animal models and human genetic research.

As first Director of the MGH Center for Human Genetic Research, Dr. Gusella pioneered the «genetic research cycle» paradigm to conceptualize genetics research from basic science to genotype - driven modeling, based on associations with human disease and translation into diagnostics, treatments, and prevention strategies.

In 2008, he joined the faculties of the MGH Cardiology Division, Cardiovascular Research Center, and Center for Human Genetic Research.

Sekar Kathiresan, a physician - scientist and a human geneticist, is the director of the Center for Human Genetic Research (CHGR) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), an Ofer and Shelley Nemirovsky MGH Research Scholar, the director of the Cardiovascular Disease Initiative at the Broad institute, and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.