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Haploinsufficiency is the cause of dominant optic atrophy
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Evidence from one family has, at last, pinpointed the cause of dominant optic atrophy (DOA) as an insufficiency in the OPA 1 gene. Previously, whether the disease arose through abnormal functioning of altered proteins or insufficiency was just speculation.
One Australian family with DOA was studied in which no OPA …