The study of genes allows to identify the pathogenic in cases of familial glaucoma mutation.
The study of the genes allows you to identify the pathogenic in cases of familial glaucoma mutation. -March 12, world Glaucoma day -The IMO provides families with the disease genetic diagnosis Barcelona, March of 2013– coinciding with the world Glaucoma week, being held until next Saturday, the IMO Foundation has launched a campaign of dissemination and prevention of disease. With the motto breaks the fence to the vision. fight against glaucoma ”, the campaign recommends, as a primary preventive measure, ocular reviews annual and biannual from 40 years in case of belonging to some of the groups at risk. Among them, people with ocular hypertension, with high myopia or other serious problems of vision, those of black or Asian race and, especially, the over 65s are and have a family history of glaucoma, given the important genetic component of the disease. Therefore, the Ocular microsurgery Institute of Barcelona (IMO) performs genetic analysis in cases of glaucoma family to identify the molecular cause of the disease, the leading cause of irreversible blindness, and complement the clinical diagnosis. The knowledge of the molecular alteration allows you to offer genetic counseling to the family, identifying the pattern of inheritance of the disease and indicating the probability of transmitting it. Also, alerts members carriers who have not yet developed the disease, but that, most likely, can suffer it in the future. Genetic diagnosis...
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