The MDS Study Group on the Nomenclature of Genetically Determined Movement Disorders seeks your opinion about the naming of genetic movement disorders to guide our recommendations moving forward.  Your feedback is very important, and should take less than 2 minutes. 

 

In 2016 the Genetic Nomenclature Task Force (predecessor of the present Study Group) proposed a system of prefixes indicating the movement phenotype followed by the gene name (e.g. DYT-KMT2B), to replace the previous numbered system (e.g. DYT28) which includes unconfirmed genes and genotype-phenotype relationships and to which new numbers are continuously being added without in-depth curation..