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Leber's Congenital Amaurosis

What are the causes?

Within the LCA group genetic testing can now, in some cases, identify which of more than six distinct genes has an error, but as yet this does not alter management.

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Medical text written January 1999 by Miss Isabelle Russell-Eggitt FRCS FRCOphth. Last updated September 2004 by Miss Isabelle Russell-Eggitt FRCS FRCOphth, Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK.

 

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