Post by Karolinska University Hospital

What happens when clinical geneticists from five Nordic countries sit in the same room for two days, working on rare disease cases that nobody has been able to solve alone? 🧬 At Karolinska University Hospital, that's exactly what took place at the first NUHA Clinomics workshop. 57 experts from Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland worked through ten of the hardest unsolved rare disease cases from across the region. "Two groups arrived independently at the same conclusion, that this could be an entirely new disease. What we have so far is very strong", says Ann Nordgren, Director of Center for Rare Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital. 🚀 The science is moving fast. Treatment rates for rare genetic diseases have gone from around 6 percent just a few years ago to 16 percent today. No single country gets there alone. Read the full story at nuhalliance.eu 👉🏼 https://lnkd.in/dDKcMP9w