FED:Number of people w identified rare genetic conditions rise

AAP General News (Australia)
02-27-2009
FED:Number of people w identified rare genetic conditions rise

By Danny Rose, Medical Writer

SYDNEY, Feb 26 AAP - The number of people living with identified rare genetic diseases
is on the rise in Australia, because more conditions are being recognised.

It is thought that up to 1.5 million Australians are now living with unique, rare and
often recently identified genetic conditions which go largely under the radar.

"It isn't so much that the number of people affected are going up it's more that the
number of diseases that we recognise is increasing," says University of Melbourne …