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The Family Curse, Identified At Last

Sep 04, 2007

A clinic that's part of the University of New Mexico Medical School along with patient advocates are helping to tackle OPMD, or oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy, a genetic disease that affects large numbers of people in Quebec as well as Hispanics in northern New Mexico, according to this article in the New York Times. The disease has proven very difficult to diagnose and treat, and only recently was a gene implicated in its onset so people can now be tested before they present symptoms.

 

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