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Leber's Congenital Amaurosis

What are the causes?

LCA always has a genetic cause; it is caused by a spelling mistake (mutation) in a gene which has an important function in the eye. To date more than 10 genes have been found to cause LCA. Although LCA has a genetic cause there is often no family history of a child with a similar condition.

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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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