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Over the recent years, the use of genetic diagnosis is gaining ground into informing clinical practice, particularly in the field of rare diseases, where diagnosis is difficult. To demonstrate the complexity of genetic diagnosis for rare diseases, we focus on Ciliopathies as an example of a group of rare diseases where an accurate diagnosis has proven a challenge and novel practices driven by scientists are needed to help bridge the gap between clinical and molecular diagnosis. Current diagnostic difficulties lie with the vast multitude of genes associated with Ciliopathies and trouble in distinguishing between Ciliopathies presenting with similar phenotypes. Moreover, Ciliopathies such as Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease (ARPKD) and Meckel-Gruber syndrome (MKS) present with early phenotypes and may require the analysis of samples from foetuses with a suspected Ciliopathy. 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