Researchers identify potential cause of hereditary, progressive blindness

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Researchers identify potential cause of hereditary, progressive blindness

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Medics at the RUB have found the cause of hereditary, progressive blindness: they have identified the previously unknown protein CCDC66, the loss of which initially leads to night blindness and in due course usually results in complete blindness.

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