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fMRI and gene therapy in adults with CNGB3 mutation.
Brain research bulletin - 1 Sept 2024
Anderson Elaine J, Dekker Tessa M, Farahbakhsh Mahtab, Hirji Nashila, Schwarzkopf D Samuel, Michaelides Michel, Rees Geraint
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Achromatopsia is an inherited retinal disease that affects 1 in 30,000-50,000 individuals and is characterised by an absence of functioning cone photoreceptors from birth. This results in severely reduced visual acuity, no colour vision, marked sensitivity to light and involuntary oscillations of the eyes (nystagmus). In most cases, a single gene mutation prevents normal development of cone photoreceptors, with...
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