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Baynam GS, Groft S, van der Westhuizen FH, Gassman SD, du Plessis K, Coles EP, Selebatso E, Selebatso M, Gaobinelwe B, Selebatso T, Joel D, Llera VA, Vorster BC, Wuebbels B, Djoudalbaye B, Austin CP, Kumuthini J, Forman J, Kaufmann P, Chipeta J, Gavhed D, Larsson A, Stojiljkovic M, Nordgren A, Roldan EJA, Taruscio D, Wong-Rieger D, Nowak K, Bilkey GA, Easteal S, Bowdin S, Reichardt JKV, Beltran S, Kosaki K, van Karnebeek CDM, Gong M, Shuyang Z, Mehrian-Shai R, Adams DR, Puri RD, Zhang F, Pachter N, Muenke M, Nellaker C, Gahl WA, Cederroth H, Broley S, Schoonen M, Boycott KM, Posada M. A call for global action for rare diseases in Africa. Nat Genet 2020; 52:21-26. [PMID: 31873296 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-019-0552-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Gareth S Baynam
- Genetic Services of Western Australia, Department of Health, Government of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.,The Western Australian Register of Developmental Anomalies, Department of Health, Government of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.,School of Medicine, Division of Pediatrics; and Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Office of Population Health Genomics, Department of Health, Government of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
| | - Eda Selebatso
- Botswana Organization for Rare Diseases (BORDIS), Gaborone, Botswana
| | - Moses Selebatso
- Botswana Organization for Rare Diseases (BORDIS), Gaborone, Botswana
| | | | - Tebogo Selebatso
- Botswana Organization for Rare Diseases (BORDIS), Gaborone, Botswana.,Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Gaborone, Botswana
| | - Dipesalema Joel
- Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Botswana School of Medicine, Botswana-Baylor Children's Clinical Centre of Excellence and Princess Marina Hospital, Gaborone, Botswana
| | | | - Barend C Vorster
- Laboratory for Inborn Errors of Metabolism (PLIEM), Center for Human Metabolomics (CHM) at the Potchefstroom Campus of the North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
| | - Barbara Wuebbels
- Professional Patient Advocates in the Life Sciences (PPALS), Danbury, CT, USA
| | - Benjamin Djoudalbaye
- Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, African Union Commission, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
| | - Christopher P Austin
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Judit Kumuthini
- Centre for Proteomic & Genomic Research, Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa
| | - John Forman
- Unaffiliated rare-disease advocate, Wellington, New Zealand
| | | | - James Chipeta
- University of Zambia School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, University Teaching Hospitals-Lusaka Children Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia
| | - Désirée Gavhed
- Department of Women's and Children's Health, Childhood Cancer Research Unit, Karolinska Institutet, and Karolinska Center for Rare Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
| | | | - Maja Stojiljkovic
- Laboratory for Molecular Biomedicine, Institute of Molecular Genetics and Genetic Engineering (IMGGE), University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
| | - Ann Nordgren
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.,Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery and Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolina Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
| | | | - Domenica Taruscio
- National Centre for Rare Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
| | - Durhane Wong-Rieger
- Canadian Organization for Rare Disorders, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,Rare Diseases International, Geneva, Switzerland
| | - Kristen Nowak
- Office of Population Health Genomics, Department of Health, Government of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
| | - Gemma A Bilkey
- Office of Population Health Genomics, Department of Health, Government of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.,Office of the Chief Health Officer, Public and Aboriginal Health Division, Department of Health, Government of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
| | - Simon Easteal
- John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
| | - Sarah Bowdin
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
| | - Juergen K V Reichardt
- Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine (AITHM), James Cook University, Smithfield, Queensland, Australia
| | - Sergi Beltran
- Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CNAG-CRG), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain.,Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
| | - Kenjiro Kosaki
- Center for Medical Genetics, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
| | - Clara D M van Karnebeek
- Departments of Pediatrics and Clinical Genetics, Emma Children's Hospital, Amsterdam University Medical Centres, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.,Department of Pediatrics, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
| | - Mengchun Gong
- National Rare Diseases Registry System of China (NRDRS), Beijing, China
| | - Zhang Shuyang
- Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China
| | | | - David R Adams
- Undiagnosed Diseases Program, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Ratna D Puri
- Institute of Medical Genetics & Genomics, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India
| | - Feng Zhang
- SeekIn. Inc., Yantian, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
| | - Nicholas Pachter
- Genetic Services of Western Australia, Department of Health, Government of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.,School of Medicine, Division of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.,School of Medicine, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
| | - Maximilian Muenke
- Medical Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA
| | - Christoffer Nellaker
- Nuffield Department of Women's and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, and Big Data Institute, Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
| | - William A Gahl
- National Human Genome Research Institute and NIH Undiagnosed Diseases Program, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
| | | | - Stephanie Broley
- Genetic Services of Western Australia, Department of Health, Government of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
| | - Maryke Schoonen
- Mitochondria Research Laboratory, Human Metabolomics, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
| | - Kym M Boycott
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
| | - Manuel Posada
- Instituto de Investigación en Enfermedades Raras & CIBERER, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
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