New genetic cause of ataxia highlighted internationally

At the conferences of the European Society of Human Genetics in Berlin and the Dutch Society for Human Genetics in Amsterdam, Ana Ignjatijević presented a poster about her research. Ana is investigating the genetic causes of autosomal dominant inherited ataxia (ADCA) in the large cohort of ataxia patients collected over the past 20 years at the Movement Disorders Expertise Center of the UMCG. In this poster, she explains that the recently discovered mutation in the FGF14 gene (resulting in the condition SCA27b) is common in this cohort.