This section contains information about Usher syndrome type 2C, as well as links to stories about and by children and adults living with type 2C.
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If you have USH2C or have a child with USH2C, you may want to check out the USH2C Facebook group.
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Individuals with Usher type 2C, like all with type 2, are born hard-of-hearing and gradually lose their vision due to retinitis pigmentosa (also known as RP). Type 2C is one of three subtypes of type 2, caused by the ADGRV1 gene.
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Professor Mariya Moosajee is a clinical scientist, a Consulting Ophthalmologist in Genetic Eye Disease at Moorfields Eye Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, Professor of Molecular Ophthalmology at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, and Group Leader of Ocular Genomics and Therapeutics at the Francis Crick Institute in London.
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Facebook page about life with Usher syndrome
