Researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health have reportedly found 36 percent of Hispanic families in the U.S. with a common form of retinitis pigmentosa got the disease because they carry a mutation of the arrestin-1 gene.
The research team reportedly studied a cohort of 300 families in the U.S. with retinitis pigmentosa, and found 3 percent exhibited a mutation of the arrestin-1 gene. However, they reportedly found more than 36 percent of Hispanic families from the cohort exhibited the arestin-1 mutation and they all came from areas in the Southwestern U.S., such as Texas, Arizona and Southern California.
The study was recently published in the journal Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science.
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Source: The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth)