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“In the United States, a rare disease is a condition that affects less than 1 in 200,000 people, while in the European Union a disease is classified as rare if it affects less than that 1 in 2000 people [49].”
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Monticelli, M., D’Onofrio, T., Jaeken, J., Morava, É., Andreotti, G., & Cubellis, M. V. (2023) · Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases · doi:10.1186/s13023-023-02852-w · Cited by 17
“Over 6,000 rare diseases have been identified, affecting 8–10% of the world’s population [4–6].”
Backgroundvan Karnebeek, C., O’Donnell‐Luria, A., Baynam, G. S., Baudot, A., Groza, T., Jans, J. J. M., Lassmann, T., Letinturier, M. C. V., Montgomery, S. B., Robinson, P. N., et al. (2024) · Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases · doi:10.1186/s13023-024-03361-0 · Cited by 21
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“Although each disease is rare, up to 10,000 individual rare disorders impact, in total,more than 300 million people globally, making rare diseases a major public health problem (Haendel et al., 2020; Tisdale et al., 2021).”
BackgroundA disease-specific iPS cell resource for studying rare and intractable diseases
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“Furthermore, the rare disease patient population, distributed across 5000 to 10,000 distinct diseases [4], suffers from a significant lack of medical knowledge due to the rarity of a given illness.”
Berry, D., Hickey, C., Kahlman, L., Long, J., Markus, C., & McCombs, C. K. (2025) · Molecular Therapy — Methods & Clinical Development · doi:10.1016/j.omtm.2024.101403 · Cited by 16
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“Recent estimates show that the number of currently identified rare diseases exceeds 10,390 (120), of which around 80% have a genetic origin and up to 75% have a pediatric onset (72, 79).”
Gresky, J., Dorn, J., Teßmann, B., & Petiti, E. (2021) · International Journal of Paleopathology · doi:10.1016/j.ijpp.2021.03.003 · Cited by 16
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“However, it is plausible that the actual number may be as high as 10,000 [2].”
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“Over 10,000 rare diseases have been identified to date 58 , collectively affecting between 3.5% and 8% of the population, 59,60 yet many patients experience a long diagnostic odyssey of 5-7 years.”
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“10 There are at least 10,000 RDs, 11 and the diagnostic yield of genomic sequencing is still low (25–50%).”
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“Over 10,000 different rare diseases collectively affect an estimated 300 million people worldwide [1].”
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“In our respondents, almost 10% of the patients remained undiagnosed, around the same range as previous findings (6)(25).”
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BackgroundMethodInfluentialSurfacing undiagnosed disease: consideration, counting and coding
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“Rare genetic disorders have been estimated to affect up to 10% of the population [1].”
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“There may be as many as 10 000 rare diseases that occur in humans.(4) These diseases often go undiagnosed for many years because they may resemble common diseases and their infrequent occurrence may result in physicians not considering”
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“The European Union considers a disease to be rare when it affects fewer than 5 in 10,000 people (Haendel et al .”
Epigenetics in rare neurological diseases
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“In view that only 5% of the 5,000–8,000 rare diseases that are presently recognized (Haendel et al., 2020) have a treatment available, orphan designated medicinal products (MPs) correspond to an area where an increase in the efficiency of clinical development or regulatory decision making is especially needed (Europea…”
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Ultra-rare ultra-care: Assessing the impact of caring for children with ultra rare diseases.
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Self-Supervised Forecasting in Electronic Health Records With Attention-Free Models
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“However, building specialized models for each subgroup is not feasible when the subgroup size is small [21], and training a single model for the entire population could yield inaccurate results for divergent subgroups.”
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“The Genetic and Rare Disease information system of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences lists >10,000 RDs [55,56].”
BackgroundAdvance Care Planning for Children With Rare Diseases: A Pilot RCT
Lyon, M. E., Fraser, J. L., Thompkins, J. D., Clark, H. L., Brodie, N., Detwiler, K., Torres, C., Guerrera, M. F., Younge, T., Aoun, S. M., et al. (2024) · PEDIATRICS · doi:10.1542/peds.2023-064557 · Cited by 12
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“Although rare diseases (RDs) seem to be rare it is estimated that there are over 7,000 distinct conditions (Haendel et al., 2020; Rare-X, 2022).”
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“It is estimated that there are 7000–10,000 rare diseases, yet only approximately 5% have an approved treatment [2, 3].”
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“It is estimated that there are more than 7,000 rare diseases,(4,5) the majority of which are single gene disorders.(5,6)”
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“However, collectively, the ∼10,000 different rare diseases will affect 1 in 12 people in their lifetime (1, 2)—which is an estimated 25–30 million Americans (3).”
Self-citationRare immune diseases paving the road for genome editing-based precision medicine
Pavel-Dinu, M., Borna, Š., & Bacchetta, R. (2023) · Frontiers in Genome Editing · doi:10.3389/fgeed.2023.1114996 · Cited by 10
“Among the ~10,000 known rare monogenic diseases (Haendel et al., 2020), inborn errors of immunity (IEI), including Primary immunodeficiencies (PIDs) and Primary Immune Regulatory Disorders (PIRDs), are a growing class of rare diseases (Demirdag et al.”
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“12,13 Here, we assess the diagnostic ability of LLMs in a large set of cases of Mendelian or chromosomal diseases, leveraging a collection of computational case reports recorded using the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) Phenopacket Schema.”
Self-citationPre-emptive pharmacogenetic testing in the acute hospital setting: a cross-sectional study
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“22 This study demonstrates the relative ubiquity of pharmacogenetics as an intervention, with the vast majority of the cohort (97.9”
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Self-citationIntegrating Machine Learning-Based Approaches into the Design of ASO Therapies
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“Although each disease affects only a small number of people, there are approximately 8000 identified rare diseases, collectively impacting an estimated 3.5–5.9% of the global population [2,3].”
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“The Orphanet database holds data on 6172 different rare diseases [4], a recent international review suggested there are more than 10,000 rare diseases [16], and 6–8000 medical conditions are classified as rare diseases by the European Commission [17].”
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An Analysis of Medical Care Services for Children With Rare Diseases in the Russian Federation
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“Currently it is assumed that the number of rare diseases exceeds 10,000 (Haendel et al., 2020).”
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“Rare disorders (RDs), 80% of which have genetic causes, are estimated to affect approximately 6% of the global population [1].”
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“, drugs for rare diseases), and the difficulty of conducting research about new orphan drugs [1,2,4,5].”
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“33 Musculoskeletal 7 (3) 13 (6) 27 (3) 81 (10) 128 (12) Allergies and disorders of the immune system 2 (1) 17 (7) 6 (1) 31 (4) 56 (5)”
MethodInfluentialAttaining Diagnostic Excellence
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“However, with an estimated 7,000 di ff erent rare diseases [1], approximately 470 million people are a ff ected worldwide [2].”
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“There are an estimated 10–12,000 different RD, [16] ~70–80% of which are rare genetic diseases, with the remainder including rare cancers, infections, poisonings, immune-related diseases, and undetermined conditions [17].”
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“Organoids are 3D, multicellular, self-assembling spheroids derived from various types of stem cells, including pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), embryonic stem cells (ESCs), and tissue-specific stem cells, retaining the characteristic features of the corresponding organs [15,19].”
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Leveraging the UMLS As a Data Standard for Rare Disease Data Normalization and Harmonization
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“” 24 Applying the UMLS globally would help with this question by enabling cross-references to be made be-tween different rare disease resources without data discrepancy, as well as supporting further rare disease data harmonization.”
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Talmon, A., Tal, Y., Moss, J., Hershkowitz, I., Shaham, D., Sosna, J., & Hershko, A. Y. (2021) · Clinical Radiology · doi:10.1016/j.crad.2021.12.009 · Cited by 8
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“Rare diseases (RD) resulting from specific genetic variants affect about 6–8% of the population [1].”
BackgroundSelf-citationHarnessing deep learning into hidden mutations of neurological disorders for therapeutic challenges
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“…disease, and epilepsy, while rare cases such as Fragile X syndrome (FXS), Rett syndrome (RTT), Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ASL) are defined as diagnostic cases in fewer than 1 in 2000 people (Sharma et al. 2019; Gilmour et al. 2020; Haendel et al. 2020).”
BackgroundIntroducing the South African Rare Diseases Access Initiative
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“For instance, Tay-Sachs disease might be categorized as rare within the general populace, yet it has been found to be carried at a frequency of 1/25 amongst German Jews [15].”
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“To start with, diagnosis is often not standardized (Haendel et al., 2020; Klimova et al., 2017), which affects the positive predictive value of a test (i.e., the proportion of true positive results within all positive test results) depending on the prevalence of a disease.”
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RDBridge: a knowledge graph of rare diseases based on large-scale text mining
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“Rare diseases are medical conditions with a very low prevalence, typically defined as affecting fewer than 200 000 individuals in the USA or 1 in 2000 individuals in Europe (Haendel et al. 2020).”
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“Rare diseases are a general term for a group of diseases with extremely low incidence and prevalence, and there are more than 7,000 known rare diseases [1] in the world.”
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“It has been reported there are 5000 – 8000 rare genetic diseases that affect 30 million people in the United States (1 in every 10 individuals) and 300 – 400 million people world-wide (Haendel et al., 2020; Lee et al., 2020; Marwaha et al., 2022).”
Health Care Costs After Genome-Wide Sequencing for Children With Rare Diseases in England and Canada
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“In addition, even taking into account the knowledge of a genetic cause in some rare diseases, their diagnosis is often delayed or wrong, and optimal clinical management is seldom achieved [32].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Haendel, M., Vasilevsky, N., Unni, D., Bologa, C., Harris, N., Rehm, H., Hamosh, A., Baynam, G., Groza, T., McMurry, J., Dawkins, H., Rath, A., Thaxton, C., Bocci, G., Joachimiak, M. P., Köhler, S., Robinson, P. N., Mungall, C., & Oprea, T. I.
- Affiliations
- Oregon Health & Science University (US)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US)
- University of New Mexico (US)
- Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Government of Western Australia Department of Health (AU)
- Oregon State University (US)
- Inserm (FR)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Freie Universität Berlin (DE)
- The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine (US)
- Corresponding author
- Haendel, Melissa
- Oprea, Tudor I.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature Reviews Drug Discovery
- Published
- 2019-11-05
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 77-78
- ISSN
- 1474-1776 (ISSN-L)
- 1474-1784
- PMC
- PMC7771654
- OpenAlex
- W2988630324
- Cited by
- 554
- References
- 6
- Citations by year
- 2026: 69 · 2025: 115 · 2024: 133 · 2023: 100 · 2022: 75 · 2021: 46 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 22.15
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- Locations
- Nature Reviews Drug Discovery (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (U24TR002278, R24OD011883)
- National Human Genome Research Institute (U41HG009650, U41HG006627, RM1HG010860, U24HG009650)
- National Cancer Institute (U24CA224370, U01CA239108, P30CA118100)
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genomics and Rare Diseases
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Keywords
- rare diseases, disease prevalence, disease definition, disease burden, rare disease epidemiology, rare disease research
- MeSH terms
- Humans, Phenotype, Rare Diseases
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