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$6.8 Million Awarded to Study the Biology of Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases


 

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded grants establishing two new research centers as part of the NIH Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN), six studies to explore how specific genes and their variations may cause disease in UDN patients, and a one-year grant to support a central biorepository for storing UDN research participant tissue samples. More.

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