Abstract:In today’s globalized society, ophthalmologists can examine people of different ethnicities regardless of where they live. The frequency of disease-causing genes varies according to a patient’s ethnic background. We explain genetic findings for Japanese patients with inherited eye diseases. Ocular genetics has made great advances over the past 30 years. For example, detecting mutations at nucleotide position 11778 in mitochondrial DNA was useful in the genetic diagnosis of Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy (… Show more
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