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Leber's Congenital Amaurosis

Background

Leber's Congenital Amaurosis (LCA) is a rare inherited retinal disorder in which there is poor vision, nystagmus (involuntary side to side movements of the eyes) and evidence of abnormal retinal function from infancy. LCA is not a single disorder as the same signs of the condition may be seen with faults in at last 10 different genes; more causative genes remain to be discovered. What is common to all forms of LCA is that the photoreceptors (the light sensitive cells in the retina) do not function normally.

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Medical text written January 1999 by Miss Isabelle Russell-Eggitt FRCS FRCOphth. Last updated February 2009 by Professor A T Moore, Division of Inherited Eye Disease, Institute of Ophthalmology UCL, 11-43 Bath Street, London EC1V 9EL

 

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