Special Issue Introduction: Inherited Retinal Disease: Novel Candidate Genes, Genotype-Phenotype Correlations, and Inheritance Models

Genes (Basel). 2018 Apr 16;9(4):215. doi: 10.3390/genes9040215.

Frans P M Cremers¹, Camiel J F Boon^{2

3}, Kinga Bujakowska⁴, Christina Zeitz⁵

¹ Department of Human Genetics and Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Center, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Frans.Cremers@radboudumc.nl.
² Department of Ophthalmology, Leiden University Medical Center, P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands. C.J.F.Boon@lumc.nl.
³ Academic Medical Center, Department of Ophthalmology, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands. C.J.F.Boon@lumc.nl.
⁴ Ocular Genomics Institute, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA. Kinga_Bujakowska@MEEI.HARVARD.EDU.
⁵ Sorbonne Université, INSERM, CNRS, Institut de la Vision, Department of Genetics, 17 rue Moreau, 75012 Paris, France. christina.zeitz@inserm.fr.

Abstract

Inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) are genetically and clinically heterogeneous disorders.[...].