Rare Diseases Symptoms Automatic Extraction

Gene patents and licensing: case studies prepared for the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health, and Society.

[canavan disease]

Researchers at the Center for Public Genomics at Duke University analyzed how patenting and licensing affect clinical access to genetic testing in the United States. The research was requested by the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health, and Society. Conditions studied were breast and ovarian cancers, colon cancers, Alzheimer disease, cystic fibrosis, hearing loss, hereditary hemochromatosis, long QT syndrome, spinocerebellar ataxia, Tay-Sachs disease, and Canavan disease.

Diseases presenting "hearing loss" symptom

  • 22q11.2 deletion syndrome
  • achondroplasia
  • adrenomyeloneuropathy
  • alexander disease
  • benign recurrent intrahepatic cholestasis
  • canavan disease
  • cohen syndrome
  • congenital toxoplasmosis
  • dentinogenesis imperfecta
  • fabry disease
  • familial mediterranean fever
  • heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
  • hirschsprung disease
  • holt-oram syndrome
  • homocystinuria without methylmalonic aciduria
  • hydrocephalus with stenosis of the aqueduct of sylvius
  • kabuki syndrome
  • kallmann syndrome
  • neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy
  • pendred syndrome
  • von hippel-lindau disease
  • wolf-hirschhorn syndrome

This symptom has already been validated