Mucolipidosis IV Foundation

Welcome to the Mucolipidosis IV Foundation website at ml4.org. We hope you find our web design easy to use and the information helpful.

ML4 gene discovered independently by Dr. Gideon Bach et all at Hadassah Medical Center in Israel and by the collaboration of Dr. Susan Slaugenhaupt's team at Harvard/Massachusetts General Hospital and Drs. Ehud Goldin and Sun Mei at the National Institutes of Health. The ML4 gene is a new protein that is probably an ion channel, but it's exact function is not yet known. 

The finding of this gene will facilitate the identification of patients and will help perform efficient prenatal diagnosis and carrier testing.

The identification of chromosome 19 led the way.

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