Investigators from Europe and America have met in Bethesda on 6-8 April 2011 to define the framework of cooperation in order to elucidate the causes of most of over 7,000 rare disorders and to achieve treatment for about 200 by 2020.
Xavier Estivill, coordinator of the Genes and Disease Programme at the CRG, participated in this meeting.
See the statement of the IRDiRC consortium and the In Focus | News in Nature, titled: Rare-disease project has global ambitions.