Molecular Basis in Rare Genetic Disorders
A special issue of Genes (ISSN 2073-4425). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Genetics and Genomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 March 2026 | Viewed by 694
Special Issue Editor
2. Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA
Interests: rare mendelian diseases; molecular genetics; clinical diagnosis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to explore the world of rare disease with the help of genetic and genomic research. Rare genetic disorders, while individually uncommon, affect millions of people around the world and can provide specific challenges in diagnosis, treatment, and research due to their complexity. Gene mutations, epigenetic modifications, and RNA mechanisms that interfere with normal biological processes will be explored. This area of research is quickly expanding, with significant implications for biomedical research and therapeutic development. Special focus will be placed upon novel diagnosis techniques like next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based disease-specific multi-gene panel, exome, and whole-genome sequencing, novel bioinformatics methodologies and tools to facilitate rare disease diagnosis, the functional elucidation of disease mechanisms, new disease–gene relationships, expanded disease phenotypes, and rare genetic disease treatments as well as outcomes.
In summary, all genomic facets of and novel discoveries related to rare genetic disorders will be covered in this Special Issue. Colleagues are encouraged to submit manuscripts with original articles or reviews on this topic.
Dr. Miao Sun
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nucleotide and mitochondrial DNA
- RNA modification
- epigenetics
- gene expression
- rare disease and inheritance
- clinical pathology
- disease mechanism
- bioinformatics and tools
- functional studies
- treatment and therapy
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