Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS): new gene, new variants

Many chromosomic locations have been linked with the AIS, however, no causative genes have been clearly identified. We recently identified two regions (3q12.1 and 5q13.3) containing possibly causative gene(S) of AIS (Edery et al. 2011). Our recent work identified disease-causing variants in a gene (that we called PFK2) in French AIS families (Patten et al. submitted 2014). We sought to expand on this study and to investigate for novel and rare variants in PFK2 in French Canadian AIS families.