University Hospital Bonn Launches New Technology to Help Geneticists Worldwide Find the Genetic Cause of Rare Syndromes

November 7, 2017

PEDIA Team, University Hospital Bonn & FDNA

BONN, Germany–(BUSINESS WIRE)–“Hundreds of rare syndromes afflict patients around the globe for which the genetic cause has yet to be understood. By identifying the genetics behind the diseases, a whole new breadth of research and medical interventions becomes possible. Today, Institute for Genome Statistics and Bioinformatics, IGSB, and the Institute of Human Genetics, IHG, Bonn, announce a new technology partnership to do just that.”

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