In search of answers to Celia's strange illness, a project promoted by patients' families obtains EU support to study rasopathies, rare genetic disorders that affect neurodevelopment. Celia was born with a mutation in the syngap1 gene, a very rare genetic disorder that affects neurodevelopment and can cause psychomotor retardation, autism spectrum disorder and epilepsy.

According to patient associations, there are just over a thousand cases in the world with this mutation and, of them, about 38 are in Spain.