News from NORD

Foundation Fighting Blindness Opens USH2A Natural History Study


 

The first patient has been enrolled in a four-year, 120-person study of the rate of disease progression and severity in people with mutations in the USH2A gene, a mutation that causes blindness and in some cases the loss of both vision and hearing. Additional information is available here.

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