Rare and Orphan Diseases

Session Description:
Rare kidney diseases comprise at least 300 inherited, congenital or acquired disorders, which all together form an important cause of ESKD in children and adults.
Learning Objectives:
Understand how advances in genetics/genomics and other omics technologies have made it possible to study rare diseases in ways that were not previously possible. Understand how these studies have increased our insight in the etiology, heterogeneity and clinical variability of these disorders.