Charity Fund

for medical and social genetic aid projects «Life Genome»

About the Fund

Charity Fund Life Genome was established to provide support for genetic research to the families with suspected hereditary disease. Charity fund finances genetic study of the patient and also healthy relatives for gene carrier that causes disease.

7855 applicants
have already received support

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Our goal is to make efficient state-of-the-art genetic research available for children and adults in need, for those who seek for help now. Genetic technologies serve as an important tool in diagnosing and determining the root cause of the problem, which preserves lives and improves its quality for every family member regardless of their age and gender.

We make expensive technologies available today for those who seek for help.

7855 applicants
have already received support

Become a partner Become a volunteer

A rare set of circumstances Moscow region

A family from the Moscow region applied. There are two sisters in the family with a difference in age of about 10 years. From birth, the older girl suffered from underweight and short stature; at the age of 3, she was first diagnosed with a severe disease in both eyes, which led to many surgical interventions by the age of 5. By school age, the girl fully entered the normative indicators for height and weight. At present, the child is 13 years old. She has a permanent visual impairment, and is growing and gaining weight normally.

Possibilities and limitations of the trio genome.

A family came from a remote region. Young healthy parents. There is a family history of hereditary diseases (heart disease, bone pathology). The first child was born with gigantism of one limb and a heart defect. The child underwent several surgeries for gigantism of the limb. The second child was born healthy. The family plans to have more children.

"Unexpected" diagnosis. Siberia

A young family came from the Siberian region. The first child was born healthy, and the second has a gross developmental delay (by the age of three he does not stand, does not walk, does not sit, gross underdevelopment of speech). Parents associate the appearance of violations with pneumonia transferred at the age of 5 months. At the age of 3, convulsions joined.

Mosaicism

A family from a very remote eastern region of the Russian Federation applied. Parents are physically healthy. The mother's first child from her first marriage is healthy (girl, 4 years old). The father had no children before. The mother's pregnancy with the second child proceeded with peculiarities: the fetus was small, there was oligohydramnios, the child did not move much.

Two girls Sakhalin

The family was looking forward to the birth of their first child, but the girl was born seriously ill. Various medical examinations did not reveal the cause of the disease. The parents decided to have a second child, but the second girl also had a similar disease.

Girl Krasnoyarsk

A healthy girl was born into a family. In the maternity hospital, the baby underwent neonatal screening, which revealed the presence of cystic fibrosis. However, a further study of the gene for cystic fibrosis did not confirm the diagnosis.

Boy Kaliningrad region

Various tests failed to establish the cause of the disease and the child’s life was at risk. Charity Fund Life Genome financed a comprehensive molecular genetic study of the child and his parents, which allowed to identify the cause of the boy's clinical condition.

Planning the birth Tula region

Grandmothers (both from father’s and mother’s side) died at the age of 51 and 45 respectively from cancer. The doctors believed that the disease was hereditary.

Child Moscow region

Young parents have a child with multiple developmental defects (heart, limbs, central nervous system), the family is planning the birth of a second. Genetic studies were repeatedly carried out, which the family paid for on their own.

A very rare cause of a hereditary disease in a boy. Moscow

A family came from Moscow. There are two sons in the family. The older boy is healthy. The parents began to notice that the younger boy by the age of two has a delay in motor and speech development, negative behavioral patterns.

Familial hypercholesterolemia

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Hereditary hearing loss

Duchenne myopathy

Spinal muscular atrophy

Long QT syndrome

Hereditary leukodystrophy and leukoencephalopathy

Tuberous sclerosis

Neurofibromatosis type 1

Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis type 2

Our team

The employees of the Fund comprise a team of caring professionals whose goal is to make expensive genetic research affordable for children and adults in need. The scope of team’s work includes handling inquiries from citizens, interaction with healthcare institutions and genetic laboratories, organization of charity events and collection of donations, reporting, coordination of the volunteer movement and development of special support programs, among other things.

Supervisory Board

Strategic management of the Charity Fund Life Genome is carried out by the Supervisory Board which is responsible for general supervision of the implementation of the Fund's program and use of funds.

Among the members of the Supervisory Board are highly respected representatives of business, science community and healthcare industry.

By joining forces, we can bring hope for obtaining healthy life to many people suffering from severe diseases. You can easily support the fund for people with suspected hereditary disease: make a donation or take part in our promotional activities. We strongly encourage the participation in our promos of all caring people regardless of their age.

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