The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) is the newest center of excellence in studying the most prevalent of the world’s rare diseases.

The national Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) Association recently named the office of MUSC ’s Dr. Sarah Breevoort’s as the only Palmetto State institution designated as a center of excellence for the disease.

“We received that designation in late July, and it’s been really wonderful,” Breevoort told the Charleston City Paper . “People were having to go all the way up to Duke for the nearest center where people had any amount of expertise in this.”

CMT is a spectrum of genetic conditions that affects the nerves connecting the brain and spinal cord. It is a progressive, hereditary disease that can show up early, but worsen over time. Breevoort explain

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