Mission 2 · The international associative registry

The registry of limb malformations, owned by the families it describes.

Each highlighted country is an association ready to bring its families’ knowledge into one shared, patient-governed registry. Hover a country to see who.

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Member association Piloting the registry (Assedea, Raggiungere) Contact opened DysNet office Area covered by a population registry of congenital anomalies Area a registry is starting to cover Care centre named by a member association (click for details) Research team publishing on our conditions (click for details) Grey dot: one estimated person living with a limb difference (1 dot = 1 person at city zoom; 10, 100 or 1,000 people when zoomed out), computed from prevalence × population. This is the situation as statistics describe it; the registry exists to make it visible. Choose the condition above. Every marker is also listed, in full, on the care centres, researchers and registries pages. Map data: Natural Earth (public domain), GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), GHSL population (EU JRC, CC BY 4.0), French départements from IGN Admin Express (Licence Ouverte) via france-geojson; registry coverage after Santé publique France 2026 · rendered with MapLibre, self-hosted

For families

Understand the diagnosis and find the association near you.

Start here →

For clinicians

Reference centres, expert registers and the bibliography.

Care centres →

For researchers

Studies, registries and how to be listed as a researcher.

The registry →

For associations

Join the network, feed the registers, share your studies.

Membership →

01 · Five registers

What is known, being studied, and where expertise lives.

Five living registers, each maintained by a named volunteer and dated, so families and clinicians always know how current the information is.

Bibliography

Peer-reviewed publications on our conditions, searchable by condition, theme and year.

Updated August 2026

Registries

The registries that already record our conditions, from EUROCAT to the French population registries.

Updated August 2026

Researchers

Who works on limb difference, where, and how to reach them.

Updated August 2026

Care centres

Reference and competence centres, in Europe and beyond.

Updated August 2026

Teratogens register

Substances of concern for the unborn child, by source and by jurisdiction.

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02 · Flagship

The first international registry of limb malformations, owned by patients themselves.

Research on limb agenesis is starved of data. DysNet carries the first international, interoperable registry developed with member associations and replicable for other rare conditions. This is what membership returns to families.

Discover the registry

03 · One voice

Where European decisions are made, families are in the room.

DysNet holds chosen seats at EURORDIS, the European Disability Forum and ERN BOND, each with a named delegate and a written report to members after every meeting.

VOICE4ALL kicks off

DysNet joins the EU project on autonomous voting rights for persons with disabilities.

May 2026

All reports →

04 · The network

Our members are the associations families actually belong to.

From Reach in the UK and Raggiungere in Italy to Aussiehands in Australia and AVITE in Spain: more than thirty organisations across fourteen countries, on four continents.

Meet the member associations