A scientist from the Florida campus of the Scripps Research Institute found mutations in a gene called nyctalopin result in inherited “night blindness,” a loss of vision in low light.
Proteins similar to nyctalopin exist in the central nervous system that could coordinate synaptic signaling in a manner similar to the retina.
Read the Journal of Neuroscience report on a gene for night vision.
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