The mission of the Center for Human Genetics at the BWH Biomedical Research Institute (BRI) is to discover genetic variations that underlie, influence, and cause disease and to use this knowledge for prevention and treatment.

Bringing the power of genetics to bear on almost all areas of medicine, researchers at the BWH-BRI are identifying and cataloging the common genetic variations underlying human disease. They’ve learned that there are genetic differences among patients who have the same disease, that the relative “contribution” of each of those genes varies from one person to the next and that each gene may play only a small role in the overall disease. To develop new therapies for disease, BWH-BRI researchers, both physicians and scientists, aim to tease out these differences, establish a database for genetic data and test potential treatments. More>>