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Hundreds of genes linked to blindness could lead to new therapies

  • Written by Ala Moshiri, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, University of California, Davis
The cause of many inherited eye diseases are a mystery.Milos Batinic/Shutterstock.com

Inherited diseases of the eye account for at least 2 million cases of blindness worldwide. A few hundred genes that cause eye disease have been identified, but in many cases the cause is unknown because not all eye disease genes have been identified.

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