Contact Claudette at National Office for more details. Diabetics with Retinitis Pigmentosa - please contact Prof. Arden at Genetic update. To date 118 genetically specific retinal conditions have been mapped but only 54 genes identified. This brings the total number of genes causing CRD to 8. This gene codes for a protein, CRB and is thought to involve cell to cell interaction or cell polarity.
Rhodopsin absorbs and reacts to light entering the eye and begins the visual process.
This form of ADRP is late onset night blindness with slow visual field loss. An excellent 4 page review of Genetics, Cell Biology, Pharmaceutical Therapies, Transplantation and Retinal Prosthesis was published by Dr Gerald Chader in a recent edition of Fighting Blindness News. Contact National Office for a copy. Enclosed with this newsletter is a Progress Report from our Gene-Tracking Project at the University of Cape Town. Yet The annual RP Ride for Sight was held in Benoni, Gauteng in February this year.