 Rare Diseases
"Rare Diseases" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A large group of diseases which are characterized by a low prevalence in the population. They frequently are associated with problems in diagnosis and treatment.
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D035583
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C23.550.291.906
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| Concept/Terms |
Rare Diseases- Rare Diseases
- Disease, Rare
- Diseases, Rare
- Rare Disease
Orphan Diseases- Orphan Diseases
- Disease, Orphan
- Diseases, Orphan
- Orphan Disease
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Rare Diseases" by people in this website by year, and whether "Rare Diseases" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2019 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Rare Diseases" by people in Profiles.
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Lantos JD. Sources of Unease About the Use of Genome Sequencing for Diagnosing Rare Diseases in Children. J Pediatr. 2021 10; 237:13-15.
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Bonder MJ, Smail C, Gloudemans MJ, Frésard L, Jakubosky D, D'Antonio M, Li X, Ferraro NM, Carcamo-Orive I, Mirauta B, Seaton DD, Cai N, Vakili D, Horta D, Zhao C, Zastrow DB, Bonner DE, Wheeler MT, Kilpinen H, Knowles JW, Smith EN, Frazer KA, Montgomery SB, Stegle O. Identification of rare and common regulatory variants in pluripotent cells using population-scale transcriptomics. Nat Genet. 2021 03; 53(3):313-321.
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Hartin SN, Means JC, Alaimo JT, Younger ST. Expediting rare disease diagnosis: a call to bridge the gap between clinical and functional genomics. Mol Med. 2020 11 25; 26(1):117.
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Lewiecki EM, Bilezikian JP, Kagan R, Krakow D, McClung MR, Miller PD, Rush ET, Shuhart CR, Watts NB, Yu EW. Proceedings of the 2019 Santa Fe Bone Symposium: New Concepts in the Care of Osteoporosis and Rare Bone Diseases. J Clin Densitom. 2020 Jan - Mar; 23(1):1-20.
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Frésard L, Smail C, Ferraro NM, Teran NA, Li X, Smith KS, Bonner D, Kernohan KD, Marwaha S, Zappala Z, Balliu B, Davis JR, Liu B, Prybol CJ, Kohler JN, Zastrow DB, Reuter CM, Fisk DG, Grove ME, Davidson JM, Hartley T, Joshi R, Strober BJ, Utiramerur S, Lind L, Ingelsson E, Battle A, Bejerano G, Bernstein JA, Ashley EA, Boycott KM, Merker JD, Wheeler MT, Montgomery SB. Identification of rare-disease genes using blood transcriptome sequencing and large control cohorts. Nat Med. 2019 06; 25(6):911-919.
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Becker ML, Funk RS. Reverse Translation in Advancing Pharmacotherapy in Pediatric Rheumatology: A Logical Approach in Rare Diseases with Limited Resources. Clin Transl Sci. 2018 03; 11(2):106-108.
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Fallon SC, Langer JC, St Peter SD, Tsao K, Kellagher CM, Lal DR, Whitehouse JS, Diesen DL, Rollins MD, Pontarelli E, Malek MM, Iqbal CW, Upperman JS, Leys CM, Wulkan ML, Hill SJ, Blakely ML, Kane TD, Wesson DE. Congenital H-type tracheoesophageal fistula: A multicenter review of outcomes in a rare disease. J Pediatr Surg. 2017 Nov; 52(11):1711-1714.
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Kingsmore SF, Dinwiddie DL, Miller NA, Soden SE, Saunders CJ. Adopting orphans: comprehensive genetic testing of Mendelian diseases of childhood by next-generation sequencing. Expert Rev Mol Diagn. 2011 Nov; 11(8):855-68.
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Lantos JD. Dangerous and expensive screening and treatment for rare childhood diseases: the case of Krabbe disease. Dev Disabil Res Rev. 2011; 17(1):15-8.
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Friedman K, Wallis T, Maloney KW, Hendrickson RJ, Mengshol S, Cadnapaphornchai MA. An unusual cause of pediatric hypertension. J Pediatr. 2007 Aug; 151(2):206-12.
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