SDS Canada Links

Links


A clinical diagnostic test is now available at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto

Research Sites:

SDS gene discovery press release from The Hospital for Sick Children, Dec 23 2002

Rommens Lab - The Hospital for Sick Children

The Hospital for Sick Children (main site)

Canadian Inherited Marrow Failure Registry (CIMFR)

US National Cancer Registry Inherited Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes (IBMFS) Registry

Severe Chronic Neutropenia International Registry

SDS Foundations and contacts in other countries:

Shwachman Diamond Support - UK

Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome Foundation (based in the USA)

Shwachman-Diamond America

Shwachman Diamond Syndrome Germany

Shwachman Diamond Syndroom - Nederland

Shwachman Diamond Australia (E-mail: buchananfam@bigpond.com)

Shwachman Diamond Holland (E-mail: ejsiderius@planet.nl)

Shwachman Diamond Italy (E-mail: aiss@shwachman.it)

Shwachman Diamond Norway (E-mail: nina.fjeldstad@c2i.net)

Shwachman Diamond Spain (E-mail: tpilar@eresmas.net)

Other sites of Interest:

How to interpret complete blood counts

Neutropenia Support Association

OMIN - Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man

Wikipedia article on SDS - has a useful genetics description

CORD- Canadian Organization for Rare Disorders

NORD - National (USA) Organization for Rare Disorders

American Society of Hematology (ASH)

emedicine- Shwachman Diamond Syndrome

emedicine- White Blood Cell Function

emedicine- Myelodysplasia