A new major gene, LZTR1, predisposing to schwannomatosis has been discovered using a sophisticated approach involving next-generation deep sequencing of evolutionary conserved sequences on chromosome 22q.
The study led and coordinated by Ludwine Messiaen, PhD, director of the UAB Medical Genomics Laboratory and Arkadiusz Piotrowski, PhD, Children’s Tumor Foundation Young Investigator Awardee was published in the February 2014 issue of Nature Genetics. For more information regarding the findings of this study, please click here.