The European Rare Diseases Therapeutic Initiative
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The European Rare Diseases Therapeutic Initiative
O ver 5,000 rare diseases have been described, the vast majority being of genetic origin. Rare diseases affect a small number of individuals—less than one person per 2,000, according to the European defi nition, or less than 200,000 individuals in the United States, according to the US defi nition [1]. The few available epidemiological data are too limited to give fi rm details on the number of...
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Affiliations: Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France. Service de Pneumologie, Centre de Référence de l’Hypertension Pulmonaire, Hôpital Bicêtre (Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris), Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France. Inserm UMR-S 999, Hôpital Marie Lannelongue, Le Plessis Robinson, France. Frankfurt Reference Center for Rare Diseases (FRZSE), ...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Medicine
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1549-1676
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020243