Professor Andrew Lotery has contributed to 4 papers published in March this year. These include:
1. A paper showing what the vision patients with wet macular degeneration is after 7 years of follow up and how vision strongly links to the structural appearance of the retina. Published in Ophthalmology Retina.
2. A paper describing the natural history of patients with mutations in a gene that causes Leber Congenital Amaurosis and Cone-Rod dystrophy and identifies which patients might improve best with new treatments such as gene therapy. Published in Ophthalmology Retina.
3. A paper identifying how specific complement genetic mutations makes the retina thin in patients with macular degeneration. This was published in Human Molecular Genetics.
4. The fourth was led by my colleague Dr Arjuna Ratnayaka and funded specifically by Gift of Sight. It showed that a high fat western diet causes macular degeneration features in an animal model. This was published in Molecular Nutrition and Food Research.