Form of congenital night blindness in dogs identified

Tuesday, September 15, 2015 - 08:20 in Biology & Nature

Working in collaboration with Japanese scientists, researchers have for the first time found a form of congenital night blindness in dogs. Their discovery and subsequent hunt for the genetic mutation responsible may one day allow for the development of gene therapy to correct the dysfunction in people as well as dogs.

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