NIH Scientists Identify Disorder Causing Blindness, Deafness, Albinism and Fragile Bones
February 28, 2017
February 28, 2017
BETHESDA, Md., Feb. 28 -- The National Eye Institute issued the following news:
Researchers at the National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the National Institutes of Health, have identified the genetic underpinnings of a rare disorder that causes children to be born with deafness, blindness, albinism and fragile bones. The newly recognized syndrome, COMMAD, affects children who inherit two mutations of a gene - one from each parent - each of whom is deaf due to another rare, genetic . . .
Researchers at the National Eye Institute (NEI), part of the National Institutes of Health, have identified the genetic underpinnings of a rare disorder that causes children to be born with deafness, blindness, albinism and fragile bones. The newly recognized syndrome, COMMAD, affects children who inherit two mutations of a gene - one from each parent - each of whom is deaf due to another rare, genetic . . .