Molecular Genetics of Cataract.

ABSTRACT: Lens opacities or cataract(s) represent a universally important cause of visual impairment and blindness. Typically, cataract is acquired with aging as a complex disorder involving environmental and genetic risk factors. Cataract may also be inherited with an early onset either in association with other ocular and/or systemic abnormalities or as an isolated lens phenotype. Here we briefly review recent advances in gene discovery for inherited and age-related forms of cataract that are providing new insights into lens development and aging.

SUBMITTER: Shiels A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5656277 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature