TEHRAN – An Iranian researcher discovers congenital blindness gene NCRNA for the first time in the world.

The discovery has been published in the Nature magazine.
Dr. Noor Mohammad Ghiasvand from Shahid Beheshti Medical University has identified a new mechanism of gene expression in his study of a type of congenital blindness prevalent in a village in Iran’s Northern Khorasan Province.
In Chaharborj village affected newborns are completely blind in spite of having no apparent birth defect.
The researcher says the patients’ eyes have two main clinical defects: retinal detachment which floats inside the eye, and agenesis of optic nerve which cause neural connection loss between one’s eyes and brain so that no light stimulation is transferred from eyes to brain and causes complete blindness