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DEFESO - Definition of the genetic-molecular bases of diseases through exomic analysis
Project objectives
The main objective is to identify new genes responsible for human pathologies, define their function, if it is not known, evaluate the possibility of developing disease models. Another objective is to provide the family or patient with a diagnosis of the cause.
Start and end date
February 2021 - Ongoing
Project Manager
prof Fiorella Gurrieri Full Professor of Medical Genetics UCBM
- Principal Investigator
Coordinating institution of the project
UCBM
Other Institutions involved
Seaver Center for Autism for research and treatment – Mount Sinai
Catholic University of the Heart of Rome
Duke University (Child Neurology Unit)
Department of Genetics in the School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA