Bert visits Shivers, who is revealed to be Doug Richardson, a former patient of his, a sex offender with Leber's congenital amaurosis.
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One small study suggests that mutations in this gene are associated with keratoconus in patients that already have Leber's congenital amaurosis . < ! --
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Clinical trials involving gene replacement of these two genes have started in Philadelphia, where researchers are hopeful that Leber Congenital Amaurosis will one day be cured.
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Emboli to the brain may cause stroke-like episodes, headache and episodes of loss of vision in one eye ( known as amaurosis fugax ).
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Mutations in this gene have been associated with Joubert syndrome and nephronophthisis, and recently with a frequent form of Leber's Congenital Amaurosis, called LCA10.
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Leber congenital amaurosis ( LCA ) accounts for at least 5 % of all inherited retinal disease and is the most severe inherited retinopathy with the earliest age of onset.
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The disease I'm particularly thinking of, if it'll help, is what I got here last time I asked a question : Leber's congenital amaurosis.
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The company announced in 2015 that it was planning a clinical trial in 2017 using CRISPR gene editing techniques to treat Leber's congenital amaurosis, a rare genetic illness that causes blindness.
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In the episode " The Blackout in the Blizzard " Angela and Hodgins find out they are both carriers of Leber's Congenital Amaurosis, giving their baby a 25 percent chance of blindness.
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MacIntyre is visually impaired, and while not completely blind, he suffers from tunnel vision and has only a two-percent field of vision, both due to Leber's congenital amaurosis.
