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RareBoost project in İzmir: 70 undiagnosed rare disease patients diagnosed
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In the RareBoost project in İzmir, 70 patients were diagnosed in about 2.5 years. The EU-funded project is run at the İzmir Biomedicine and Genome Center. The center is part of Dokuz Eylül University. It was stated that patients had waited an average of 8 years for a diagnosis. It was also said that some had been undiagnosed for 25 years. The diagnoses include neurological diseases, epilepsy and muscle diseases.
What does it mean for patients and families?
Some families have gone without a diagnosis for years. These families can ask their doctors for a referral for advanced genetic testing at genome centers.
Source
İlkses Gazetesi: İBG'den nadir hastalıklara umut
The source page was opened and read on October 7, 2026. Summary prepared by the Doktorclub editorial team and translated from Turkish; it has not yet been reviewed by a physician (a scientific board is being set up).
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