Every year hundreds of patients face uncertainty when healthcare providers are unable to discover the cause for their symptoms.
The Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) is a research study backed by the National Institutes of Health that seeks to provide answers for patients and families affected by these mysterious conditions.
Model Organisms
The Model Organisms Screening Center (MOSC) for the Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) is composed of two Centers that use fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), nematode worm (Caenorhabditis elegans) and zebrafish (Danio rerio) genetics and biology to tackle rare and undiagnosed diseases.
Publications

The participant’s parents first noticed delays in his motor development around 2 years old. He began walking at 15 months but was unsteady on his feet. He had an abnormal gait while walking and muscle weakness mostly in his upper arms and legs (proximal muscle weakness). He also had low … read more
Shortly after birth, the patient was found to have pyloric stenosis, a condition in which muscles block food from entering the small intestine. She underwent surgery to correct this at 9 weeks. Currently she has reduced functioning of her stomach and intestines (reduced gastric and intestinal motility) and constipation. She … read more

As an infant, the patient had low muscle tone (hypotonia) and was not meeting developmental milestones. She started wearing hearing aids at the age of 17 months due to hearing loss (sensorineural) and was diagnosed with cataracts at 2 years old. She had one seizure at 6 years old, but … read more
