Résumé :
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FORGE Canada (Finding of Rare Disease Genes) is a national consortium of clinicians and scientists using next-generation sequencing technology to identify genes responsible for a wide spectrum of rare pediatric-onset disorders present in the Canadian population. The FORGE Canada project was launched on April 1, 2011. The Consortium brings together clinicians from all 21 Clinical Genetics Centres representing every province, as well as clinicians from 17 countries. Collaboration also includes internationally-recognized Canadian scientists with expertise in gene identification and teams from the three Genome Canada Science and Technology (GC S & T) Innovation Centres (Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver), which have already set up the new sequencing technology. Nation-wide requests for proposals have resulted in over 200 disorders that met FORGE criteria and these will be studied over 2 years. These disorders range from those affecting single families to disorders with over 20 patients from across Canada and internationally recruited through the FORGE network
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