Genetic Origin of Severe Developmental Eye Condition Identified | Michigan Medicine
The finding is a promising step forward in understanding eye growth – and potentially fixing near- and far-sightedness.
Health Lab · Michigan Medicine Department of Communication
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Those with a rare genetic condition called nanophthalmos have abnormally small eyes whose internal structures – including the size of the lens – are otherwise normal.
The condition can cause a host of vision-related problems including amblyopia (“lazy eye”) or strabismus (“cross eyes”) in children, retinal detachments and glaucoma.
By advancing ideas first cultivated at University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center, a team of eye and genetics experts is the first to identify a gene mutation behind nanophthalmos and to describe a new pathway for eye growth and development.
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