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New Clinical Trial Grants for Rare Diseases
R Rubin, JAMA, November 23, 2021

A painful, potentially life-threatening skin disease, an inherited disease that can cause long-term brain development issues, and pediatric brain cancer are among the rare diseases for which the US Food and Drug Administration has awarded 11 new clinical trial research grants. Many of the studies involve children, some as young as newborns. One trial is evaluating the treatment of recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, the inherited skin disorder that can lead to painful, life-threatening blisters and wounds. Another study is evaluating early treatment of tuberous sclerosis complex before the onset of seizures in infants.

Belzutifan for Renal Cell Carcinoma in von Hippel-Lindau Disease.
Jonasch Eric et al. The New England journal of medicine 2021 11 (22) 2036-2046

A rare autosomal dominant hereditary disorder, von Hippel–Lindau (VHL) disease is caused by germline pathogenic variants in the VHL gene. VHL disease occurs in approximately 1 in every 27,300 to 39,000 live births. The condition is associated with benign and malignant neoplasms. Belzutifan was associated with predominantly grade 1 and 2 adverse events and showed activity in patients with renal cell carcinomas and non–renal cell carcinoma neoplasms associated with VHL disease.

100,000 Genomes Pilot on Rare-Disease Diagnosis in Health Care - Preliminary Report.
et al. The New England journal of medicine 2021 11 (20) 1868-1880

This pilot study of genome sequencing in a national health care system showed an increase in diagnostic yield across a range of rare diseases. Diagnostic yields varied among family structures and were highest in family trios (both parents and a proband) and families with larger pedigrees. Diagnostic yields were much higher for disorders likely to have a monogenic cause (35%) than for disorders likely to have a complex cause (11%). Diagnostic yields for intellectual disability, hearing disorders, and vision disorders ranged from 40 to 55%. We made genetic diagnoses in 25% of the probands. A total of 14% of the diagnoses were made by means of the combination of research and automated approaches, which was critical for cases in which we found etiologic noncoding, structural, and mitochondrial genome variants and coding variants poorly covered by exome sequencing.

Bespoke Gene Therapy Consortium
NIH, October 2021

The AMP Bespoke Gene Therapy Consortium (BGTC) aims to develop platforms and standards that will speed the development and delivery of customized or ‘bespoke’ gene therapies that could treat the millions of people affected by rare diseases.


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Molecular diagnoses in the congenital malformations caused by ciliopathies cohort of the 100,000 Genomes Project. External Web Site Icon
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