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Molecular anthropology meets genetic medicine to treat blindness in the North African Jewish population: human gene therapy initiated in Israel.
Human gene therapy - 1 Dec 2010
Banin Eyal, Bandah-Rozenfeld Dikla, Obolensky Alexey, Cideciyan Artur V, Aleman Tomas S, Marks-Ohana Devora, Sela Malka, Boye Sanford, Sumaroka Alexander, Roman Alejandro J, Schwartz Sharon B, Hauswirth William W, Jacobson Samuel G, Hemo Itzhak, Sharon Dror
Abstract excerpt
The history of the North African Jewish community is ancient and complicated with a number of immigration waves and persecutions dramatically affecting its population size. A decade-long process in Israel of clinical-molecular screening of North African Jews with incurable autosomal recessive bli...
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