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In Retinal Disease, Sight May Depend on Second Sites

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If two people have the same genetic disease, why would one person go blind in childhood but the other later in life or not at all? For a group of genetic diseases " so-called ciliary diseases that include Bardet-Biedl syndrome, Meckel-Gruber syndrome, and Joubert syndrome " the answer lies in one gene that is already linked to two of these diseases and also seems to increase the risk of progressive blindness in patients with other ciliary diseases.

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