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Usher Syndrome |
Deafness-retinitis pigmentosa syndrome; dystrophia retinae pigmentosa-dysostosis syndrome; Graefe-Usher syndrome; Hallgren syndrome; Retinitis pigmentosa-deafness syndrome |
Usher syndrome is a genetic disease causing deaf-blindness. It is essentially progressive retinitis pigmentosa combined with congenital hearing impairment. It is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern and is estimated to occur in 1 in 10,000 people. While this is a rare genetic condition, it represents the major cause of syndromic deafness with blindness. The condition gets its name from British ophthalmologist, C.H. Usher, who in 1914 wrote a paper describing several cases in which the ...
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Usher Syndrome Organizations
- National Women's Health Information Center http://www.4woman.gov/
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/
- National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development http://www.nichd.nih.gov/
- National Eye Institute http://www.nei.nih.gov/
- Foundation Fighting Blindness http://www.blindness.org/
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Information Clearinghouse, NIDCD, NIH, HHS http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/misc/clearinghouse.asp
- Genetics Home Reference http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/
- Cleveland Clinic http://www.clevelandclinic.org
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