The rare-to-common disease journey: a winding road to new therapies.

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The study of genetic variants that cause rare diseases has been a central strategy of genetic research for the last century, but the contribution of rare variants to the multifactorial inheritance of common diseases has only recently emerged as an avenue to accelerate functional mapping of the human genome. This perspective defines rare and common diseases, surveys prospects for integrating their study to...

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