Patient organisations

The Register will work in close collaboration with patient organisations, in order to communicate the results directly to those concerned. You can get acquainted with a particular patient organisation on the Introduce Yourself page.

 Microdeletion network

Some major European centres working on microdeletions have already committed themselves to close collaboration with the Register, and assured to share their findings on chromosomal aberrations. These centres are:

• Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
• Institute of Medical Genetics, Zurich, Switzerland
• Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, United Kingdom
• Karolinska Institute Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
• University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
• IRCCS, Troina, Italy
• University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

In addition, the Molecular Cytogenetics Unit of the University of Bari, Italy, has certified that they will support the participants of ECARUCA by providing the appropriate BACs requested.