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It’s hard to imagine suddenly losing your sight in your 20s, but that’s what happened to Richard Wheeler when he developed Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON). People with LHON ...

In his senior year of high school, he was diagnosed with Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy, a rare genetic disorder that caused him to rapidly lose his vision. In 2012, while studying at Harvard ...

That disorder is called Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy, or LHON. 1-4 A progressive disorder that is passed down the maternal line, LHON impacts approximately two out of every 100,000 people ...

ncl.ac.uk Leber hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) is a mitochondrial genetic disease that preferentially causes blindness in young adult males, affecting about 1 in 25 000 of the British population.

Editor,—Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) is a maternally inherited mitochondrial disease that results in bilateral visual loss. It primarily affects young men. The typical optic nerve head ...

mitochondrial neurogastrointestinal encephalomyopathy and Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy, as well as those associated with mutations in nuclear DNA (typically in genes of DNA repair proteins), ...