About CHG

The Research Center for Human Genetics is using modern genomic technologies to unravel the genetic predisposition to the most common chronic diseases, such as heart disease and stroke. Cardiovascular diseases are the number one cause of sickness and death in the United States. The Texas Medical Center has a long tradition of basic and clinical research in the cardiovascular diseases. Identifying and characterizing the genes underlying cardiovascular disease susceptibility promises to offer new treatment strategies (e.g. drugs) and even prevent their occurrence altogether. The Research Center for Human Genetics uses the latest tools for large scale genomic and proteomic analyses. In addition, a major activity of the Center is the statistical and bioinformatics analysis of large-scale DNA sequence, gene expression and proteomic data.