Rigid Spine Syndrome Patients’ potential treatment breakthrough

Professor Gina Ravenscroft, Rare Disease Genetics and Functional Genomics Group Leader from the Harry Perkins of Medical Research and Senior Research Fellow at The University of Western Australia and PhD student, Lein Dofash from the Perkins and UWA Medical School recently published a paper identifying a new genetic cause of rigid spine syndrome, a rare muscle disorder that causes spinal stiffness, scoliosis, and breathing difficulties in children.