Genetics & Genomics Student Publication: Electrophysiological evidence of the role of the cerebellum in DYT1 dystonia

Genetics and Genomics Graduate student Yuning Liu is the first author on a recent publication entitled “The abnormal firing of Purkinje cells in the knockin mouse model of DYT1 dystonia.”

Liu is in Dr. Yuqing Li’s lab which mainly focused on the pathophysiology and experimental therapeutics of DYT1 dystonia.

“DYT1 dystonia is an inherited movement disorder caused by a heterozygous trinucleotide deletion (GAG) in DYT1 gene,” Liu said.

Dystonia is a movement disorder in which your muscles contract involuntarily, causing repetitive or twisting movements. There is currently no cure for the disorder but many studies are being done for possible treatments.

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