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Author of the article: Sophie Ash  •  Special to National Post Publishing date: Jan 15, 2021  •  January 15, 2021  •  4 minute read Dr. Robert Koenekoop has spent the past 25 years studying all of the genes responsible for IRDs, pictured here at his Montreal clinic, pre-COVID. SUPPLIED Article content We often think of genetics in terms of the characteristics we inherit from our birth parents – brown hair, freckles, artistic talent, and so on. But there’s a whole other set of genetic inheritance that can be much more serious. Inherited retinal dystrophies (IRDs) are diseases caused by mutations in over 270 different genes that can be passed down through generations. Individuals with an IRD experience progressive loss of vision and may become blind. The vision loss that occurs in IRDs is a result of genetic mutations that interfere with the way the eye would normally function.

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