Inherited retinal diseases: linking genes, disease-causing variants, and relevant therapeutic modalities

N Schneider, Y Sundaresan, P Gopalakrishnan… - Progress in retinal and …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) are a clinically complex and heterogenous group of visual
impairment phenotypes caused by pathogenic variants in at least 277 nuclear and …

Ciliopathies

DA Braun, F Hildebrandt - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2017‏ - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Nephronophthisis-related ciliopathies (NPHP-RC) are a group of inherited diseases that
affect genes encoding proteins that localize to primary cilia or centrosomes. With few …

Partial recovery of visual function in a blind patient after optogenetic therapy

JA Sahel, E Boulanger-Scemama, C Pagot, A Arleo… - Nature medicine, 2021‏ - nature.com
Optogenetics may enable mutation-independent, circuit-specific restoration of neuronal
function in neurological diseases. Retinitis pigmentosa is a neurodegenerative eye disease …

Comprehensive rare variant analysis via whole-genome sequencing to determine the molecular pathology of inherited retinal disease

KJ Carss, G Arno, M Erwood, J Stephens… - The American Journal of …, 2017‏ - cell.com
Inherited retinal disease is a common cause of visual impairment and represents a highly
heterogeneous group of conditions. Here, we present findings from a cohort of 722 …

[HTML][HTML] Usher syndrome: Hearing loss, retinal degeneration and associated abnormalities

P Mathur, J Yang - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular Basis …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Usher syndrome (USH), clinically and genetically heterogeneous, is the leading genetic
cause of combined hearing and vision loss. USH is classified into three types, based on the …

Characterization of the mutational landscape of anaplastic thyroid cancer via whole-exome sequencing

JW Kunstman, CC Juhlin, G Goh… - Human molecular …, 2015‏ - academic.oup.com
Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) is a frequently lethal malignancy that is often
unresponsive to available therapeutic strategies. The tumorigenesis of ATC and its …

The molecular basis of human retinal and vitreoretinal diseases

W Berger, B Kloeckener-Gruissem… - Progress in retinal and eye …, 2010‏ - Elsevier
During the last two to three decades, a large body of work has revealed the molecular basis
of many human disorders, including retinal and vitreoretinal degenerations and …

Biology and therapy of inherited retinal degenerative disease: insights from mouse models

S Veleri, CH Lazar, B Chang… - Disease models & …, 2015‏ - journals.biologists.com
Retinal neurodegeneration associated with the dysfunction or death of photoreceptors is a
major cause of incurable vision loss. Tremendous progress has been made over the last two …

Neuropathogenesis of congenital cytomegalovirus infection: disease mechanisms and prospects for intervention

MCJ Cheeran, JR Lokensgard… - Clinical microbiology …, 2009‏ - Am Soc Microbiol
Congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is the leading infectious cause of mental
retardation and hearing loss in the developed world. In recent years, there has been an …

Orphan nuclear receptors: from gene to function

V Giguère - Endocrine reviews, 1999‏ - academic.oup.com
II. Nuclear Receptors: General Concepts A. Anatomy of nuclear receptors B. Mechanisms of
action III. Orphan Nuclear Receptors A. Definition