Phenotypic marker for early disease detection in dominant late-onset retinal degeneration.

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PURPOSE: To define early disease expression in autosomal dominant late-onset retinal degeneration (L-ORD), a retinopathy that becomes symptomatic after age 50 and is characterized histopathologically by sub-RPE deposits. METHODS: Three families with L-ORD were included; two families had postmortem eye donors with retina-wide sub-RPE deposits. Six patients with severe visual loss (ages 62-93) were examined...

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