Team Discovers Cause of Rare Disease Childhood Disorder Called PKD Linked to Genetic Mutations
Friday, December 16, 2011 - 13:30
in Health & Medicine
A large, international team of researchers led by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco has identified the gene that causes a rare childhood neurological disorder called PKD/IC, or "paroxysmal kinesigenic dyskinesia with infantile convulsions," a cause of epilepsy in babies and movement disorders in older children.