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Nature Reviews Genetics - Genome-wide association studies of increasing scale have revealed the prevalence of pleiotropic genetic variants that affect multiple traits. In this Review, the authors...

Genome-wide analyses for 7,266 traits leveraging data from several genetic ancestry groups in UK Biobank identify new associations and enhance resources for interpreting risk variants across diverse p...

The Government Accountability Office found that the Trump administration, by abruptly canceling NIH grants, had violated a 1974 federal law

Jay Bhattacharya’s tenure as NIH director has seen health disparities research swept up in the Trump administration’s attack on DEI

The National Institutes of Health can’t award grants to outside researchers under a new White House restriction.

Atul Butte, who championed the use of big data in science and health care and inspired a generation of trainees at UC San Francisco and beyond to pursue the fields he pioneered — translational and cli...

Population structure is a well-known confounder in statistical genetics, particularly in genome-wide association studies (GWAS), where it can lead to inflated test statistics and spurious associations...

This JAMA Forum discusses the recent budget cuts to National Institutes of Health (NIH), the effects of these cuts on scientific research and health of individuals in the US, and the prospects for cha...

Here the authors identify hundreds of genetic loci linked to 36 traits in East Asians, revealing population-specific associations and emphasizing the importance of diverse ancestry groups in genome-wi...

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The incidence of prostate cancer is increasing. Screening with an assay of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) has a high rate for false positive results. Genomewide association studies have identified...

The Office for Civil Rights today sent letters to 60 institutions of higher education warning them of potential enforcement actions if they do not fulfill their obligations under Title VI of the Civil...

The stakes are high, but the choice should not be difficult.

The lawsuit says that NIH has canceled more than 670 research grants, which were due more than $1.1 billion in funding.

Tanaka et al. present OnSIDES (on-label side effects resource), a database of drug adverse events extracted from drug labels using a fine-tuned PubMedBERT model, including pediatric-specific adverse e...

Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration’s latest firing blitz.

Rumeysa Ozturk is a Turkish national, according to her lawyer, Mahsa Khanbabai.

Masked plainclothes officers arrested Rumeysa Ozturk outside a Somerville home Tuesday evening.

UCL Genetics Institute (UGI) is a multi-faculty Centre dedicated to the analysis of Big Genetic Data.

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