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Building a better future for people with rare diseases in all four UK nations

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Northern Ireland’s participation in the 100,000 Genomes Project has been very successful, he said. Therefore, we have started to develop rare disease teaching sessions for our undergraduate medical, nursing, and biomedical university curriculum,” he said. This year’s Rare Disease Day will be held on Sunday (28 February).

Genomics 111
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Unlocking disease treatment with large-scale research

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A few decades ago, gathering genetic data on the scale of the 100,000 Genomes Project would have been unthinkable – it was only in 2003 that the entire human genome was mapped. It is likely, just as with the 100,000 Genomes Project, we will be hearing about the breakthrough made possible by this approach in the years to come.