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Anna Lindstrand
Prof. Anna Lindstrand is a consultant in Clinical Genetics, Director of the Clinical Genetics diagnostic laboratory (Karolinska University Hospital) and group leader for Rare Diseases research group (Karolinska Institutet).
Anna's main area of research is the study of rare genetic diseases, to improve genetic diagnostics, increase knowledge about genotype-phenotype correlations and further understanding of disease biology. She was one of the initiators of the Genomic Medicine Center Karolinska – Rare Diseases (GMCK-RD) that has enabled diagnostic genome sequencing of more than 25 000 rare diseases patients.
Anna has a longstanding interest in in structural genomic variation and has been an early user of genome sequencing to characterize the breakpoints of genomic rearrangements.