New Finding In Rare Eye Disease
Researchers have made a finding which could pave the way for new treatments for sufferers of a rare eye disease which can lead to blindness. In a paper published in the Journal of Pathology, scientists reveal they have discovered why mutations in a key gene can cause the cornea to go opaque and lead to sight loss. Pax6 is the gene responsible for the development of the eye and mutations of it can cause the cornea to go cloudy.
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Filed under: Eye Health on July 16th, 2008