First Patient Enrolled in USH2A Natural History Study
August 17, 2017
August 17, 2017
COLUMBIA, Md., Aug. 17 -- The Foundation Fighting Blindness issued the following news release:
The first patient has been enrolled in a four-year natural history study of people with mutations in the USH2A gene which are the leading cause of the combined vision and hearing loss associated with Usher syndrome type 2A and vision loss from autosomal recessive retinitis pigmentosa. There are currently no treatments for the vision loss associated with these inherited retinal diseases.
The first patient has been enrolled in a four-year natural history study of people with mutations in the USH2A gene which are the leading cause of the combined vision and hearing loss associated with Usher syndrome type 2A and vision loss from autosomal recessive retinitis pigmentosa. There are currently no treatments for the vision loss associated with these inherited retinal diseases.