When studying 300 families with retinitis pigmentosa (RP), researchers found more than 34% of the Hispanic patients exhibited a specific arestin-1 gene mutation—and all of them hail from Southwestern United States. The researchers hope further studies into the gene mutations responsible for RP could lead to individualized gene therapy.
| Sullivan LS, Bowne SJ, Koboldt DC, et al. A novel dominant mutation in SAG, the arrestin-1 gene, is a common cause of retinitis pigmentosa in Hispanic families in the Southwestern United States. Invest Opthalmol Vis Sci. 2017;58(5):2774. |
