Examples of use of GEI
1. The proposed federal funding level will enable GEI to perform genetic analysis –– or genotyping –– studies for several dozen common diseases.
2. Schwartz, M.D., Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, also part of NIH, and co–chairman of the NIH Coordinating Committee for GEI.
3. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at NIH and chairman of the GAIN Steering Committee and co–chairman of the NIH Coordinating Committee for GEI.
4. Federally funded genotyping for GEI will be managed by an NIH coordinating committee under the usual government rules, subject to competition between research facilities, and begin in FY 2007.
5. Therefore, GEI will also invest in innovative new technologies to measure environmental toxins, dietary intake and physical activity, and to determine an individual‘s biological response to those influences, using new tools of genomics, proteomics and metabolomics.