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Prospects for retinal gene replacement therapy.
Trends in genetics : TIG - 1 Apr 2009
Smith Alexander J, Bainbridge James W, Ali Robin R
Abstract excerpt
Inherited retinal degeneration, which includes conditions such as retinitis pigmentosa and Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), affects approximately 1/3000 of the population in the Western world. It is characterized by loss of vision and results from mutations in any one of >100 different genes. There are currently no effective treatments, but many of the genes have now been identified and their functions...
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