A team of researchers from Wayne State University have been granted a $1.9 million grant from the National Eye Institute (NEI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to better understand leukodystrophies (LD) and genetic Leukoencephalopathies (gLE) — rare genetic disorders affecting myelin in the central nervous system that can cause progressive loss in vision, among other issues.
The research team have reportedly discovered a mutation in Vacuolar Protein Sorting 11 (VPS11) is a cause of a type of leukoenephalopathy. For their research, the team will reportedly be using a previously characterized zebrafish mutant line of VPS11 to better understand the progression and model for this disease, with a special focus on progressive vision loss.
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Source: Wayne State University