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Research Links
GeneClinics
GeneClinics (www.geneclinics.org) is a knowledge base of expert-authored, up-to-date information relating genetic testing to the diagnosis, management, and counseling of individuals and families with inherited disorders.
GeneClinics resource of technical and scientific facts including diagnosis and clinical description:
National Institutes of Health (www.nih.gov)
The National Institute of General Medicine and Science (NIGMS) Human Genetic Cell Repository supplies scientists with the materials for accelerating disease gene discovery at a reasonable cost. The resources available include highly-characterized, viable, and contaminant-free cell cultures and high quality, well-characterized DNA samples derived from these cultures, both subjected to rigorous quality control.
(Order FRDA Cell lines) The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) has compiled a Friedreich's Ataxia fact sheet (en español).
NIH Clinical Center — The Warren Grant Magnusen Clinical Center Database lists the studies under way at the clinical center in Bethesda, Maryland.
Online Inheritance in Man
Encyclopedic database entries provide an overview with hyperlinked references.
PubMed (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) (Official MedLine site) — Search the National Library of Medicine for extensive article listings on Friedreich's ataxia and related sporadic ataxias.
CRISP (crisp.cit.nih.gov) (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects) is a searchable database of federally funded biomedical research projects conducted at universities, hospitals, and other research institutions.
Glossary of Genetic Terms (www.genome.gov) — Dictionary prepared by the National Human Genome Research Institute.
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