New paper out!

Our Partner Organisation Fighting Blindness Ireland announced the publication of a collaborative study in the scientific journal Nature Scientific Reports. They found a gene variant enriched in Irish Stargardt disease patients. Stargardt Disease is a rare inherited retinal degeneration; the number of affected people is estimated to be 1 in-10,000, however the exact amount is difficult to calculate due to the high level of clinical variation in the population. The study is aiming to help both doctors and geneticists give a more accurate diagnosis and therefore is paving the way for better access to the correct therapy needed in each case.
Thank you to everyone who worked on this study, amongst them the StarT fellows Iris Post (ESR13) and Zelia Corradi (ESR5).