Orphanet is a knowledge base dedicated to rare diseases as well as corresponding diagnosis, orphan drugs, clinical trials and expert networks The website is managed by a network of academic establishments from 40 countries, led by Inserm. It contains content both for physicians and for patients. Its administrative office is in Paris and its official medical journal is the Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases published on their behalf by BioMed Central. As of October 2020, the site provides information about over 6100 rare diseases and 5400 genes. More information...
According to PR-model, orpha.net is ranked 3,537th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 429th in German Wikipedia.
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