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    Newly Identified Gene Deletion in Standard Poodles Sheds Light on Severe Vision Disorder

    Inherited retinal diseases form a broad and complex group of genetic conditions that cause progressive vision loss and blindness. Dogs, like humans, are susceptible to many such disorders. Because of…

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    New genetic cause of blindness in dogs (link is external)

    In collaboration with a foundation that breeds service dogs for the visually impaired, researchers at the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Padova…

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