Pete Humphries • Marian M. Humphries
Lawrence C. S. Tam • G. Jane Farrar
Paul F. Kenna • Matthew Campbell
Anna-Sophia Kiang

2012

Progress in Development of Genetic
and Molecular Therapies

The euphoria we experienced in 1989, in localizing ‘the’ gene for autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa to the long arm of chromosome 3, was an exuberance that was exceedingly short lived. It immediately became apparent, through lack of evidence for genetic linkage in a second family, that ‘one more’ gene remained to be identified.