New Muscular Disease: Myoglobinopathy (IMAGE)

IDIBELL-Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute

New Muscular Disease: Myoglobinopathy

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Institute (IDIBELL) led by Dr. Montse Olivé have described in Nature Communications a new muscular disease caused by a mutation in the myoglobin gene. The study has been possible thanks to a collaboration with a group of geneticists from the University of Western Australia (UWA), led by Prof. Nigel Laing, and researchers from the Karolinska Institute (Stockholm, Sweden).

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Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL)

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