Challenge and Hope in Disease Diagnostic

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Obtaining accurate diagnoses for rare diseases is crucial to the quality of life of millions. Although they affect a small proportion (one in every two thousand people), their collective impact is immense: it is estimated that there are up to ten thousand types globally, affecting eight million in Mexico alone. These diseases, often called “orphans”, have been historically ignored by research, leaving patients, mostly children, in an odyssey of …