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A Review of Secondary Photoreceptor Degenerations in Systemic Disease.
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine - 4 Dec 2014
Mysore Naveen, Koenekoop Jamie, Li Shen, Ren Huanan, Keser Vafa, Lopez-Solache Irma, Koenekoop Robert K
Abstract excerpt
Photoreceptor neuronal degenerations are common and incurable causes of human blindness with one in 2000 affected. Approximately, half of all patients are associated with known mutations in more than 200 disease genes. Most retinal degenerations are restricted to the retina (primary retinal degeneration) but photoreceptor degeneration can also be found in a wide variety of systemic and syndromic diseases. These...
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