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    Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a member of a group of genetic disorders called inherited retinal dystrophy (IRD) that cause loss of vision. Symptoms include...
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    syndrome, also known as Hallgren syndrome, Usher–Hallgren syndrome, retinitis pigmentosa–dysacusis syndrome or dystrophia retinae dysacusis syndrome, is a...
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  • Thumbnail for Neuropathy, ataxia, and retinitis pigmentosa
    Neuropathy, ataxia, and retinitis pigmentosa, also known as NARP syndrome, is a rare disease with mitochondrial inheritance that causes a variety of signs...
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    sensitive. Defects in the rhodopsin gene cause eye diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa and congenital stationary night blindness. Rhodopsin was discovered...
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    "sensing" tissue. Retinitis may be caused by a number of different infectious agents. Its most common form, called retinitis pigmentosa, has a prevalence...
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    X-linked retinitis pigmentosa GTPase regulator is a GTPase-binding protein that in humans is encoded by the RPGR gene. The gene is located on the X-chromosome...
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  • Retinitis Pigmentosa International (RPI or RP International) is an international, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that is committed to focusing world...
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  • number of human diseases. For instance, it has been associated with retinitis pigmentosa, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, osteogenesis imperfecta, familial...
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  • the cause of autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa (the first identified gene for non-syndromic retinitis pigmentosa).   He was the David G. Cogan Professor...
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    insufficient adaptation to darkness. The most common cause of nyctalopia is retinitis pigmentosa, a disorder in which the rod cells in the retina gradually lose their...
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  • around the UK, including The Comedy Store. McCausland is blind due to retinitis pigmentosa. McCausland was born in 1977 in West Derby Village in Liverpool and...
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  • Thumbnail for Foundation Fighting Blindness
    the entire spectrum of retinal degenerative diseases, including retinitis pigmentosa, macular degeneration, Usher syndrome, Stargardt disease and related...
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    change at position 847 from glutamate to lysine) has been linked to retinitis pigmentosa. Since this substitution mutation is located far from known functional...
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  • Posterior column ataxia-retinitis pigmentosa syndrome (PCARP) is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder of the human eye, attributed to mutation of a...
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  • Thumbnail for Muscular atrophy-ataxia-retinitis pigmentosa-diabetes mellitus syndrome
    Muscular atrophy-ataxia-retinitis pigmentosa-diabetes mellitus syndrome, also known as Kurukawa-Takagi-Nakao syndrome is a very rare genetic disorder which...
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  • also funds research on many other causes of vision loss including retinitis pigmentosa, uveitis, retinal detachment, and rare eye diseases and disorders...
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    humans, mutated CNGA1 genes result in an autosomal recessive form of retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative form of blindness. CNGB1, previously called the rod...
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  • Thumbnail for Rhizomelic dysplasia, scoliosis, and retinitis pigmentosa
    Rhizomelic dysplasia, scoliosis, and retinitis pigmentosa is a very rare genetic disorder which is characterized by ocular/visual, dental and osseous anomalies...
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    Willie Brown (politician) (category People with retinitis pigmentosa)
    president. While serving as Assembly speaker, Brown was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a disease that has no cure and would slowly destroy his eyesight...
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    measurement can be made by Optical coherence tomography. Patients with retinitis pigmentosa have abnormal thinning of the RNFL which correlates with the severity...
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    of Retinitis Pigmentosa is observed to result in fewer and less severe microvascular lesions in both humans and mouse models. Retinitis Pigmentosa results...
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  • Salvatore Cascio (category People with retinitis pigmentosa)
    he received critical acclaim and a BAFTA Award. He suffers from retinitis pigmentosa. He is Roman Catholic. Giordano, Lucio (2 September 2022). "Sono...
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  • hypogammaglobulinemia Retinitis pigmentosa Retinitis pigmentosa-deafness Retinis pigmentosa deafness hypogenitalism Retinitis pigmentosa mental retardation...
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  • potential to treat achromatopsia, X-linked retinoschisis, X-linked retinitis pigmentosa, and age-related macular degeneration. The company has six products...
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    Differential diagnosis Amblyopia, retrobulbar optic neuropathy, retinitis pigmentosa sine pigmento Treatment Eyeglasses, contact lenses, refractive surgeries...
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  • ABCA4 related disease has a role to play in other diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa, cone-rod dystrophies and age-related macular degeneration (AMD)...
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    divided into neoplastic and non-neoplastic conditions. Non-neoplastic: retinitis pigmentosa intraocular foreign body juvenile xanthogranuloma retinal detachment...
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    total blindness or severe sight loss from birth or early childhood. Retinitis pigmentosa is characterized by decreased peripheral vision and trouble seeing...
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    secretions. In 1922, he described his studies of two sisters who had retinitis pigmentosa, polydactyly, hypogonadism as well as obesity. Two years earlier...
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    recessive congenital stationary night blindness (CSNB; OMIM 310500); retinitis pigmentosa 2 (RP2; OMIM 312600); Bornholm eye disease (OMIM 310460). Many genes...
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