Advancing diagnosis and research for rare genetic diseases in Indigenous peoples

Affiliations

• ¹ Rare Care Centre and Genetic Services of Western Australia, Department of Health, Government of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia. [email protected].
• ² Faculty of Health and Medicine, Division of Pediatrics, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia. [email protected].
• ³ Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia. [email protected].
• ⁴ Faculty of Medicine, University of Notre Dame, Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia. [email protected].
• ⁵ Faculty of Science and Engineering, Spatial Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia. [email protected].
• ⁶ Faculty of Medicine, Notre Dame University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia. [email protected].
• ⁷ School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. [email protected].
• ⁸ IRDiRC Scientific Secretariat, French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm), Paris, France.
• ⁹ Department of Clinical Genetics, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.
• ¹⁰ National Centre for Indigenous Genomics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
• ¹¹ Department of Pharmacology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• ¹² Institute of Genetics, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• ¹³ Platform on Shaping the Future of Health and Healthcare, World Economic Forum, New York, NY, USA.
• ¹⁴ Human Metabolomics, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa.
• ¹⁵ Facultad de Medicina, Center for Genetics and Genomics, Clinica Alemana Universidad del Desarrollo, Santiago, Chile.
• ¹⁶ Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
• ¹⁷ Rare Diseases South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa.
• ¹⁸ Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Smithfield, Queensland, Australia.
• ¹⁹ Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
• ²⁰ Faculty of Maori and Indigenous Studies, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.
• ²¹ Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
• ²² Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
• ²³ National Rare Disease Office, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
• ²⁴ Academic Centre on Rare Diseases, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
• ²⁵ Western Australian Register of Developmental Anomalies, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
• ²⁶ Quantitative Genomics Medicine Laboratories (qgenomics), Esplugues de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain.
• ²⁷ UBC Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Health, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• ²⁸ UBC Northern Medical Program and Department of Surgery, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada.
• ²⁹ Centre for Human Metabolomics, North-West University, Capetown, South Africa.