Yale University has been awarded an $11 million federal grant to study the genetics of rare inherited diseases.
As part of the study, researchers at Yale, the University of Washington, and a center operated jointly by Baylor and Johns Hopkins University will analyze the genomes of thousands of patients who suffer from more than 6,000 rare diseases – each afflicting fewer than 200,000 Americans but collectively more than 25 million individuals in this country alone.
At Yale, the Center for the Study of Mendelian Disorders, which refers to diseases caused by inherited mutations of a single gene, will receive $11.2 million under the four-year program. DNA sequencing for this project will be performed at the recently established Center for Genome Analysis at Yale’s West Campus.
The funding is part of a $48 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
