Inheritance of Congenital Blindness

This book provides a balanced and up-to-date knowledge of different kinds of congenital blindness at family level describing the epidemiological and molecular approaches. It includes: A detailed account of linkage analysis and consanguinity in Pakistani population The detailed structure of human eye including retina, retinal organization and retinal diseases Different categories of inherited retinal diseases Epidemiology of childhood blindness Estimated magnitude of childhood blindness by region Genes causing retinal diseases Influence of parental consanguinity on the inheritance of ocular disorders Inheritance patterns of the diseases in Pakistani consanguineous families Non-biological factors like economic status and levels of education Prevalence of congenital blindness in different castes A base line information regarding the development of eye disorders in consanguineous families at molecular level

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Dr.Farhat Jabeen(PhD,QAU Pak;2Post Docs,UK), Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, GC University, Faisalabad, Pakistan. Dr.Sajjad Aslam Shami(PhD, U.K), Associate Professor, Prof. Dr. Samina Jalali (PhD, Germany; Post Doc, USA) both are from the Department of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU)Islamabad, Pakistan.