Gyrate atrophy of the choroid and retina. Long-term reduction of ornithine slows retinal degeneration.

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Gyrate atrophy of the choroid and retina is an autosomal recessive, chorioretinal dystrophy that begins in childhood and leads to blindness in the fourth to seventh decade of life. The primary defect is deficiency of ornithine-delta-amino-transferase, which results in accumulation of ornithine. We examined six pairs of affected siblings to determine if intrafamilial variability in the phenotype was less than...

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