Position paper of the undiagnosed diseases network international with respect to the establishment of the journal Rare-Open research in rare diseases

• William A. Gahl,
• Olaf Bodamer,
• Helene Cederroth,
• Roberto Giugliani,
• Eric Klee,
• Manuel Posada De La Paz,
• Olaf Horst Riess,
• Domenica Taruscio

Affiliations

William A. Gahl

NIH Undiagnosed Diseases Program, NIH, Bethesda, MD, United States; Correspondence to: NIH Undiagnosed Diseases Programof Directorof the Clinical Director, National Human Genome Institute, National Institutes of Health, 10 Center Drive, Bldg. 10, room 10C-103, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States.

Olaf Bodamer

Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

Helene Cederroth

Wilhelm Foundation, Brottby, Sweden

Roberto Giugliani

Department of Genetics UFRGS, Medical Genetics Service HCPA, DASA and Casa dos Raros, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Eric Klee

Center for Individualized Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States

Manuel Posada De La Paz

SpainUDP program, Rare Diseases Research Institute, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Olaf Horst Riess

Institut für Medizinische Genetik und Angewandte Genomik, Tübingen, Germany

Domenica Taruscio

National Centre for Rare Diseases, Italian National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy