Abstract

IRREVERSIBLE BLINDNESS CAUSING HEREDITARY DISEASES

Aliza Singh Rathore* and Narendra Chandra Sharma

Abstract

Vision is one of the important sense of human body. There is wide range of eye diseases which may be caused due to many reasons like environmental, hormonal imbalance and genetic factors responsible for some eye diseases. Retinoblastoma, Retinitis Pigmentosa etc. are well known hereditary diseases. Inheritance of many vision disorders and their heterogeneous nature poses a challenge to genetic testing of patients for mutations. In present study some other eye diseases like glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy subjects were selected for knowing their co relation with cytogenetic as well as their hereditary pattern of occurrence in selected subjects & their colour vision is also studied.

Keywords: Diabetic Retinopathy, Retinoblastoma, Retinitis Pigmentosa, Amblyopia, Age Related Macular Degeneration, Iridocyclitis.