This Article  • Full text  • PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on ISI (1)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in JAMA  Topic Collections  • Genetics, Other  • Statistics and Research Methods  • Alert me on articles by topic

Bridget M. Kuehn

JAMA. 2006;295:1633-1634.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings.

Pinpointing the exact genetic basis of common diseases and providing tools to measure environmental contributions to those diseases are the goals of a pair of new initiatives being launched by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The complementary initiatives, announced in early February, will build on the work of large-scale efforts such as the Human Genome Project and the International HapMap Project to provide more specific information about the roots of diseases that occur frequently, such as diabetes, asthma, common cancers, and schizophrenia. In one of the initiatives, the Genetic Association Information Network (GAIN), investigators will mine genetic data collected in selected NIH-funded clinical studies to zero in on the genes responsible for 7 common diseases. In the other, the Genes and Environment Initiative (GEI), better technology and methods for measuring a person's environmental exposures and the biological consequences of such exposures will be developed.

Two new . . . [Full Text of this Article]

PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP

THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES

The Quest for Genes Causing Complex Traits in Ocular Medicine: Successes, Interpretations, and Challenges
Iyengar
Arch Ophthalmol 2007;125:11-18.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT