Chapter 1063: Chapter 872: Cerebellar Artery Bypass?

Gene tests from Sanbo Hospital are generally sent to Nandu Medical University Genetics Laboratory, a key national lab. The director, Lin Lan, is Su Nanchen's fiancée.

Soon, Lan Xueping's gene test results were out. Lan Xueping was diagnosed with SCA3 type, the most common form of hereditary spinocerebellar ataxias in our country.

Spinocerebellar ataxias, abbreviated as SCA in English, if strictly defined, should be considered a group of hereditary neurological diseases characterized by progressive motor coordination dysfunction and balance disorder due to degenerative changes in the cerebellum, brainstem, and spinal cord caused by genetic mutations.

Initially, doctors believed that the disease was inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion, but as research on the disease deepened, they found that its inheritance was not limited to autosomal dominant patterns. There are also several other modes of inheritance: autosomal recessive, X-linked, and mitochondrial.