Researchers find new insights into inherited retinal disease

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Sat, 01/16/2010 - 23:00

(University of California - San Diego) An international team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered new links between a common form of inherited blindness affecting children and a gene known as Abelson helper integration site-1 (AHI1).

Their findings, which may lead to new therapies and improved diagnostics for retinal disease, will appear online in advance of publication in the journal Nature Genetics on January 17.

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