Rare Disorders

Investigators from the OHSU Rare Disorders Research Consortium study many aspects of rare disorders, from gene discovery to disease mechanisms to therapeutics.  

  • Achondroplasia
  • Activity-Dependent Neuroprotective Protein syndrome (ADNP)
  • Alagille syndrome
  • Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD)
  • Ankylosing spondylitis
  • Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia (ARVD)
  • Ataxia telangiectasia
  • Atrioventricular septal defect (AVSD)
  • Autosomal recessive congenital ichthyosis (ARCI)
  • Bartter syndrome
  • Behcet disease
  • Blau syndrome
  • Bloom syndrome
  • Breast and ovarian cancer, hereditary (HBOC)
  • Bronchiectasis
  • Carnitine palmitoyltransferase I deficiency (CPT1)
  • Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis (CTX)
  • Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (CMT)
  • Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML)
  • Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS)
  • Cockayne syndrome
  • Congenital stationary night blindness (CSNB)
  • Connective tissue disorders, hereditary
  • Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (CJD)
  • Cystic fibrosis (CF)
  • Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD)
  • Dyschondrosteosis / Leri-Weill dyschondrosteosis (LWD)
  • Dyskeratosis congenita (DKC)
  • Ebstein anomaly
  • Ectopia lentis
  • Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS)
  • Eisenmenger syndrome
  • Erdheim-Chester disease
  • Fabry
  • Fanconi anemia (FA)
  • Fatty acid hydroxylase-associated neurodegeneration
  • Feingold syndrome
  • Garre disease
  • Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST)
  • Gitelman syndrome (GS)
  • Glutaric acidemia
  • Gordon syndrome
  • Hand-foot-genital syndrome (HFG)
  • Hemochromatosis, hereditary (HH)
  • Hemophilia
  • Hemorrhagic telangiectasia, hereditary (HHT)
  • Holoprosencephaly (HPE)
  • Huntington disease (HD)
  • Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS)
  • Infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy (INAD)
  • Knobloch syndrome (KS)
  • Konzo
  • Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH)
  • Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA)
  • Lissencephaly
  • Loeys-Dietz syndrome (LDS)
  • Long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (LCHAD)
  • Long QT syndrome (LQTS) / Romano-Ward syndrome
  • Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM)
  • Lysosomal storage diseases (LSDs)
  • Marfan syndrome (MFS)
  • Medulloblastoma
  • Mevalonate kinase deficiency / hyper IgD syndrome (HIDS)
  • Mitochondrial membrane protein-associated neurodegeneration (MPAN)
  • Muscular dystrophy
  • Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (NDI)
  • Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation (NBIA)
  • Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1)
  • Neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2)
  • Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (NCL) / Batten disease
  • Niemann-Pick type C
  • Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI)
  • Pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration (PKAN)
  • Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH)
  • Phenylketonuria (PKU)
  • Pompe disease / glycogen storage disease type II (GSD II)
  • Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS)
  • Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis
  • Pseudoachondroplasia
  • Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)
  • Retinal degenerative diseases
  • Retinal dystrophies, hereditary
  • Retinitis pigmentosa (RP)
  • Retinoblastoma
  • Retinopathies, hereditary
  • Rett syndrome
  • Schizencephaly
  • Schwannomatosis
  • Septo-optic dysplasia (SOD)
  • Shprintzen-Goldberg syndrome (SGS)
  • Sickle cell disease
  • Sitosterolemia
  • Sjogren-Larsson syndrome (SLS)
  • Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome (SLOS)
  • Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)
  • STAT5B deficiency
  • Takayasu's arteritis
  • Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF)
  • Thanatophoric dysplasia type II
  • Thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection (TAAD)
  • Thymic neoplasms
  • Tourette syndrome
  • Trichothiodystrophy
  • Turner syndrome
  • Tyrosinemia
  • Weill-Marchesani syndrome (WMS)
  • Werner syndrome
  • Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP)