Overview of Subprojects

1. Network Management and Dissemination
2. Patient Recruitment and DNA Biomaterial Bank
3. National Register for congenital uro-rectal Malformations
4. Systematic Identification of Genes involved in the Development of ARM and EEC
5. not funded
6. Functional Validation of Candidate Genes for ARM or EEC in Mice
7. not funded
8. Multicentre cross-sectional and longitudinal Follow-Up Study in ARM
9. Multicentre cross-sectional and longitudinal Follow-Up Study in EEC
10. Psychosocial Outcome in Patients with Anorectal Malformations (ARM) and the Exstrophy Epispadias Complex (EEC)

Intended associated projects:

• Normal Embryonic Morphogenesis of the Cloacal Membrane and its Aberrations in Animal Models for ARM and EEC (former subproject 7)
• Cooperation with Nijmegen, Netherland and Padua, Italy