KBG Foundation Partners with FDNA to Help Children with Rare Genetic Diseases

MANCHESTER, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– “Today, KBG Foundation announces its partnership with Boston-based FDNA to accelerate precision medicine and grow the number of confirmed KBG global cases. Clinicians working with the KBG Foundation helped to train FDNA’s facial analysis technology, Face2Gene, to better recognize the clinical signs of KBG Syndrome in patients. The results from this work are now being made available to experts globally to better diagnose and treat patients suffering from KBG.”

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