Sentences with phrase «causes choroideremia»
A fault in the CHM gene causes choroideremia, in which cells in the retina stop working and slowly die, leading to blindness.
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Choroideremia is caused by defects in the CHM gene, which produces a protein called REP - 1 and affects one in 50,000 people.
Thus it was fascinating to see positive selection on genes like CHM and CNGB3, in which mutations can cause retinal diseases featuring night blindness (i.e. choroideremia and retinitis pigmentosa) in humans.