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Opitz C Syndrome

Gene that causes rare disorder, Opitz C syndrome, identified

Opitz C syndrome is a genetic disease that causes severe disabilities in patients and has been diagnosed in three people in the Iberian Peninsula, and sixty people in the world. A team of researchers has now identified a gene that causes the Opitz C syndrome in the only patient in Catalonia diagnosed with this severe congenital disease. This new scientific advance is a first step to discover the genetic bases of this syndrome which, so far, does not offer treatment possibilities, prenatal diagnosis or genetic counseling. Ref. Source 1v.

Syndrome Opitz

Finding the gene that causes something is the first step. Now they can research ways of reversing that gene or fixing that gene to rid the world of a disorder.