Regional clinics and research programmes, the Society for Mucopolysaccharide Diseases

Mucopolysaccharide diseases are rare conditions which affect one in 25,000 babies.  There are 21 different MPS conditions which means every eight days an affected baby is born.

These children are missing an enzyme which helps the cells in their bodies to break down waste products and get rid of them.

The build up of these waste products causes more and more damage to the children’s bodies.  They lose mobility and major organs like their heart and kidneys can fail.  Many of them die in childhood.

There is no cure for MPS diseases but enzyme replacement therapy is being shown to be very effective in treating five of these conditions.

Jeans for Genes helps to fund ongoing research into treatments which will slow the progress of these conditions, and funds an advocacy support worker to bring more immediate help to families.