The Challenge and promise of rare disease diagnosis in China

摘要：

Rare diseases are chronic and serious,featuring early onset at birth or in childhood,rapid deterioration and high mortality rate,which creates a burden on society and public health systems.Of the known rare diseases,80 percent are genetic in origin,and half of those affected worldwide are children.In China,the rare disease patients are over 10 million,and 70 percent of the patients are children (Song et al.,2012;Liu et al.,2010).

机标关键词：mortality rate、public health、early onset

所属期刊栏目：60

分类号：R74;R51

在线出版日期：2017-08-14（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）

页数：共5页

页码：681-685