• Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) is a rare inherited eye disease that appears at birth or in the first few months of life. It affects about 1 in 40,000...
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  • lines 25–26. Leber's congenital amaurosis (LCA) is the most severe and earliest of the inherited retinal dystrophies that cause congenital blindness. It...
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    virus. The CRISPR treatment for LCA10 (the most common variant of Leber congenital amaurosis which is the leading cause of inherited childhood blindness) modifies...
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    Amaurosis fugax (Greek: ἀμαύρωσις, amaurosis meaning 'darkening', 'dark', or 'obscure', Latin: fugax meaning 'fleeting') is a painless temporary loss of...
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    experimental technique. These include treatment of retinal diseases Leber's congenital amaurosis and choroideremia, X-linked SCID, ADA-SCID, adrenoleukodystrophy...
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  • known as Leber's congenital amaurosis and Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy Titus Leber - Austrian film director Walter Philip Leber - former Panama...
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    Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) is a mitochondrially inherited (transmitted from mother to offspring) degeneration of retinal ganglion cells...
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    rare form of inherited blindness, known as Leber's congenital amaurosis or LCA. Leber's Congenital Amaurosis damages the light receptors in the retina...
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    developing countries due to financial and institutional limitations. Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) has been a major focus in the development of gene therapy...
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    Windsor E. A. M.; et al. (2009). "Human RPE65 gene therapy for Leber congenital amaurosis: persistence of early visual improvements and safety at 1 year"...
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    eye clinic in Heidelberg. Leber was the first to describe what is now known as Leber's congenital amaurosis in 1869 and Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy...
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  • a gene therapy medication for the treatment of Leber congenital amaurosis. Leber's congenital amaurosis, or biallelic RPE65-mediated inherited retinal...
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    gene therapy that is commercially available to RP patients with Leber congenital amaurosis type 2. It replaces the miscoded RPE65 protein that is produced...
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  • epithelium cells for this conversion. A possible mechanism for Leber's congenital amaurosis has been proposed as the deficiency of RPE65. Without the RPE65...
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  • reported that patients with the rare genetic retinal disease Leber's congenital amaurosis had been successfully treated using gene therapy with adeno-associated...
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    Phase 1 and Phase 2 trials for a number of diseases, including Leber's congenital amaurosis, hemophilia, congestive heart failure, spinal muscular atrophy...
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  • clinical trial in 2017 using CRISPR gene editing techniques to treat Leber congenital amaurosis type 10 (LCA10), a rare genetic illness that causes blindness...
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    Albinism Aniridia Bilateral congenital cataract Bilateral optic nerve hypoplasia Idiopathic Leber's congenital amaurosis Optic nerve or macular disease...
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    sensorineural hearing loss, impaired intellectual development, and leber congenital amaurosis Syndromic X-linked intellectual disability Chudley-Schwartz type...
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    heterochromia), it is often classified as either genetic (due to mosaicism or congenital) or acquired, with mention as to whether the affected iris or portion...
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    associated with a severe form of retinitis pigmentosa, RP12, and with Leber congenital amaurosis. Alternatively spliced transcript variants have been observed...
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  • light on the causes of uveitis and other autoimmune diseases. Leber congenital amaurosis is a rare inherited eye disease that impairs vision starting in...
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    Congenital cataracts are a lens opacity that is present at birth. Congenital cataracts occur in a broad range of severity. Some lens opacities do not progress...
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    including achromatopsia, cone dystrophy, Leber's congenital amaurosis and retinitis pigmentosa. These can be congenital or commence in childhood or adulthood...
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    eventually require extra-ocular muscle surgery to resolve their problems. Congenital esotropia, or infantile esotropia, is a specific sub-type of primary concomitant...
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    glasses and colored halos due to hydration of lens.[citation needed] Congenital cataracts can result in amblyopia if not treated in a timely manner. Age...
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    Congenital red–green color blindness is an inherited condition that is the root cause of the majority of cases of color blindness. It has no significant...
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    conjunctivitis), retinoblastoma, and congenital conditions (cataracts and glaucoma). Leber congenital amaurosis primarily affects the retina, and typically...
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  • needed] Aphakia Blepharitis Buphthalmos Cataracts Coloboma Cone dystrophy Congenital abnormalities of the eye Viral conjunctivitis Corneal abrasion Corneal...
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    genotyping reveals RPE65 as the most frequently mutated gene in Leber congenital amaurosis in Denmark". European Journal of Human Genetics. 24 (7): 1071–1079...
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