Our data on 2 patients with CP, 10 patients with idiopathic scoliosis, 2 patients with CP/scoliosis and 10 healthy controls, show that gene and protein expression for MBP or FFARs was lower in patients with CP and scoliosis than in controls, but the levels were lowest in subjects with CP/Scoliosis. Here, MBP is linked to idiopathic scoliosis.