New insights into inherited retinal disease
An international team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, hav 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 Jan. 17.
1 de febrero de 2010
A newly recognized class of disease known as "ciliopathies" has caught the attention of the medical community. Ciliopathies are caused by problems in the structure and/or function of cilia, which are small antenna-like structures protruding from the surface of most cells.
Fuente: University of California - UC Newsroom