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Funding research at the forefront of genomics to improve human health. Formerly the Human Genome Project. https://t.co/4hdQRFkFNU
Bethesda, MD
Joined December 2010
Read the article and a recent NHGRI article on Dr. Bianchi’s work:
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IDENTIFY involves a series of follow-up medical tests, including a MRI scan of the whole body. The researchers also surveyed the participants to understand their experiences receiving the prenatal test results and how they made the decision to be screened for cancer.
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In some of these cases, the atypical results can be explained by benign tumors, autoimmune diseases, or blood abnormalities in the pregnant individual. In rare cases, the person has cancer.
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Each year, around two million pregnancies in the U.S. receive non-invasive prenatal testing, but a few years into the use of these tests, clinicians started to see unexpected results.
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A new @sciam story highlights NIH intramural investigator Dr. Diana Bianchi and her research group called Incidental Detection of Maternal Neoplasia Through Non-invasive Cell-Free DNA Analysis (IDENTIFY).
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tRNAs are folded into a distinct L-shape that allows them carry out their key role in protein synthesis. Learn more about tRNA and its shape by creating your own paper model of it! Check out our instructions and printable paper for folding:
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Did you know that RNA can fold into different shapes? There are many different types of RNA, including Transfer RNAs (or tRNAs for short), that fold into different shapes to help them function and be stable!
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Codominance refers to a type of inheritance where two versions of the same gene are expressed separately to yield different traits in an individual. Instead of one trait being dominant over the other, both traits appear, such as in a flower that has more than one pigment color!
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This reference can give comprehensive views of the differences in people’s DNA! Learn more in our human genome variation fact sheet:
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Scientists use reference genomes as a guide to study humans and find genomic variants in the genome! A reference human genome sequence is an established, high-quality and well-accepted sequence of a human genome.
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Learn more in our RNA fact sheet!
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tRNAs are folded into a distinct L-shape that helps them carry out their function. One end of the tRNA has a specific sequence to match a codon on the mRNA, while the other end of the tRNA has a site to carry the amino acid that will be added to the new protein.
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Many types of RNA, including tRNAs, fold into specific shapes that help them function and keep them stable. Complementary sequences at different positions along the length of an RNA fold the molecule into loops and other complex structures.
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As the ribosome reads each codon along an mRNA, the tRNA bring the correct amino acid, which is then added to the growing protein molecule!.
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Transfer RNAs (called tRNAs for short) are small RNA molecules that play an important role in protein synthesis! Each tRNA corresponds to one of the 20 possible protein building blocks in humans called amino acids.
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Learn more about the MorPhiC program:
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The group hopes that by phenotypically characterizing null alleles of every human gene, they will provide a resource useful for understanding gene function broadly.
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In a new paper, the MorPhiC consortium outlines their strategic vision and discusses their methods and how their data will integrate with data from other consortiums.
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