Rare disease
ӳý researchers study several rare inherited diseases, including muscle disorders, mitochondrial disorders, and kidney disease. Knowledge about risk factors for rare genetic diseases has the potential to illuminate the biology underlying these diseases, to improve the lives of patients through new diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities, and to shed light on related common diseases.

Credit: CDC/ Dr. Edwin P. Ewing, Jr.
Microscopic image of cross-sectional calf muscle from a person with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, showing extensive replacement of muscle fibers by fat cells