Why rare disease needs precision medicine-and precision medicine needs rare disease.

Might, Matthew; Crouse, Andrew B · Cell Rep Med · 2022

editorial · Level V

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Abstract

With one in ten suffering from one of 10,000 rare diseases, precision medicine opens a path toward identifying therapies for rare patients. Conversely, it is rare patients-through their collective experience and the knowledge captured in their genetics-who open the path toward identifying therapies for common patients.

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