NHGRI also supports exploration of the complex ethical, legal, and social implications of genomics, and is committed to ensuring that the knowledge and benefits generated from genomics research are disseminated widely, both to fuel current and future researchers and to benefit the general public and promote genomic literacy. Each genome contains all of the information needed to build and maintain that organism.) This research occurs across a spectrum: basic research to shed light on the structure and function of the genome translational research to decipher the molecular bases of human diseases and clinical research to establish how to use genomic information to advance medical care. (A genome is an organism's complete set of DNA, including all of its genes. Since completion of the Human Genome Project, NHGRI has funded and conducted research to uncover the role that the genome plays in human health and disease. The Human Genome Project, which had as its primary goal the sequencing of the 3 billion DNA letters that make up the human genetic instruction book, was successfully completed in April 2003. NHGRI is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the nation’s medical research agency. The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) was established originally as the National Center for Human Genome Research in 1989 to lead the International Human Genome Project.
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