Discovery of a new retinal gene involved in childhood blindness
Friday, March 6, 2009 - 11:07
in Health & Medicine
The team of Dr Robert Koenekoop which includes Dr Irma Lopez from the Research Institute of the MUHC at the Montreal Children's Hospital played a crucial role in the international collaboration that led to the discovery of a new gene that causes Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) and retinitis pigmentosa (RP), two devastating forms of childhood blindness...