{"id":16575,"date":"2014-02-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/actualites-et-publications\/genome-quebec-is-proud-to-recognize-the-international-rare-disease-day\/"},"modified":"2014-02-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T05:00:00","slug":"genome-quebec-is-proud-to-recognize-the-international-rare-disease-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/news-and-publications\/genome-quebec-is-proud-to-recognize-the-international-rare-disease-day\/","title":{"rendered":"G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec is proud to recognize the International Rare Disease Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that approximately 80% of rare diseases have a genetic origin?<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that almost 75% of these diseases affect children?<\/p>\n<p>On this special day, G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec wishes to salute the involvement and commitment of the Qu\u00e9bec researchers who are working in finding the origins and treatments of rare diseases.<\/p>\n<p>A rare disease is defined as a disease that affects less than 1 in 2,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>All over the world, over 7,000 rare diseases have been identified.<\/p>\n<p>In Qu\u00e9bec, we estimate that almost 1 in 20 people is suffering or carrying a rare disease, which represents nearly 500,000 Quebecers. Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rqmo.org\/acceuil.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RQMO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We invite you to learn more on the partnership between G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec and the CHU Sainte-Justine on the creation of an integrated clinical genomic centre in pediatrics in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The centre will allow the development of new solutions to diagnostic challenges in children with rare genetic diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genomequebec.com\/144-en\/news-dawn-of-a-new-era-for-children-introducing-canadas-first-integrated-clinical-genomic-centre-in-pediatrics.html?year=&#038;month=&#038;tri=H&#038;page=1\">release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that approximately 80% of rare diseases have a genetic origin? Did you know that almost 75% of these diseases affect children? On this special day, G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}