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News Release
NHGRI will highlight rare disease research that benefits affected patients and provides insights into more common disorders on Rare Disease Day.
… Institute (NHGRI) researchers are highlighting rare disease research that benefits affected patients and also … underlining this important relationship in advance of Rare Disease Day at NIH , a day-long symposium that is part of a … only nine people in the world. Called ACDC, this adult-onset condition is associated with progressive and painful …
For Patients and Families
A rare disease is generally considered to be a disease that affects fewer than 200,000 people in the United States at any given time.
… A rare disease is generally considered to be a disease that affects fewer than 200,000 people in the United … a role in rare diseases. Such factors may directly cause disease, or interact with genetic factors to cause or …
Educational Resources
A complex disease is caused by the interaction of multiple genes and environmental factors.
… Complex Disease … A complex disease is caused by the interaction of multiple genes and environmental factors. … Genes, Cancer, Heart Disease, Gene-environment Interactions … A complex disease …
Clinical Research
The Undiagnosed Diseases Program provide answers to patients with mysterious conditions that have long eluded diagnosis.
… Diseases Program (UDP) is part of the Undiagnosed Disease Network (UDN), an NIH Common Fund initiative that … new insights about genetic and biochemical mechanisms of disease and insights into normal cell biology, biochemistry … role of molecular and biochemical events that can cause disease and, eventually, the development of diagnostic and …
15 Ways Genomics Influences Our World
Genomics is ending diagnostic odysseys for patients with rare diseases.
… identification of at least 15 other children with the same disease, and the establishment of the NGLY1 Foundation  to support research about the disease and pursue possible treatments. In 2015, Matt was one … sequencing can transform the life of someone with a rare disease comes from Sonia Vallabh and Eric Minikel . After a …
Staff
Dr. Stone is a staff clinician in NHGRI's Inflammatory Disease Section.
… patients with HA20 (haploinsufficiency of A20), a disease that may be associated with inflammatory liver disease and is investigating medications … in a linear deubiquitinase define otulipenia, an early-onset autoinflammatory disease . Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A . …
For Patients and Families
The Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center helps people find useful information about genetic and rare diseases.
… and teachers who work with people with a genetic or rare disease. Even scientists who are studying a genetic or rare disease and who need information for their research have … or rare diseases and advocacy groups who want up-to-date disease information for their members have contacted GARD. …
Genetic Disorders
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease is an inherited neurological disease characterized by a slowly progressive degeneration of the muscles and loss of sensation.
… Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT) is an inherited neurological disease characterized by a slowly progressive degeneration of … fingers, and toes. … CMT is an inherited neurological disease characterized by a slowly progressive degeneration of …
Clinical Research
A study with the goal of finding the genetic cause of familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) and several novel and undiagnosed causes of autoinflammatory disease.
… Syndrome (FCAS) Muckle-Wells Syndrome (MWS) Neonatal Onset Multisystem Inflammatory Disease (NOMID) Undifferentiated …
For Patients and Families
Neglected diseases are conditions that inflict severe health burdens on the world's poorest people.
… trypanosomiasis. Commonly called sleeping sickness, this disease is caused by a parasitic microbe transmitted by … Africa. American trypanosomiasis. Commonly called Chagas disease, this disease is caused by a parasitic microbe transmitted by …