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Han Brunner is the former Head of the Institute of Human Genetics at Nijmegen Radboudumc, and at Maastricht Medical Center, in the Netherlands. Han promotes rapid implementation of genomic technologies in Medicine, which is advantageous for patients, and families. Genomic approaches and can make the care for people with rare diseases more effective.

His scientific work has shown that new mutations are the main cause of intellectual disability, which led to the acceptance of exome sequencing as a first-tier test in neurodevelopmental disorders. Recent work from his group established that heterozygote selection is relevant to the overall landscape of autosomal recessive diseases in European populations.

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