The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) is a division of the National Institutes of Health, located in Bethesda, Maryland. The National Institutes of Health is an institution of the United States government which focuses on medical research. ... Panoramic view of downtown Bethesda Bethesda is an urbanized, but unincorporated, area in Montgomery County, Maryland, near Washington, D.C.. It takes its name from a church located there, the Bethesda Presbyterian Church (built 1820), which in turn was named from a passage in the Christian New Testament. ...

The NHGRI was founded in 1989 as part of the National Institutes of Health to lead the Human Genome Project, whose goal was to map and sequence the entire human genome. The major portion of this was accomplished in April of 2003. NHGRI works on many types of high throughput studies to map and sequence organisms that might better aid in the understanding of how genomes work. They have funded the sequencing of many different genome projects including the mouse, rat, chicken, and dog genomes as well. The National Institutes of Health is an institution of the United States government which focuses on medical research. ... The Human Genome Project (HGP) endeavored to map the human genome down to the nucleotide (or base pair) level and to identify all the genes present in it. ... Human genome is the genome of Homo sapiens. ...

The NHGRI also researches treatments for genetic disorders as well as genetic susceptibility loci for many common diseases. A genetic disorder, or genetic disease is a disease caused, at least in part, by the genes of the person with the disease. ... The word locus (plural loci) is Latin for place. In biology, a locus is the position of a gene (or other significant sequence) on a chromosome. ...

External links

• NHGRI Homepage (Genome.gov)