Eyeing a new model for studying Duane retraction syndrome
Duane retraction syndrome (DRS) is a congenital eye-movement disorder that hinders outward gaze and causes retraction of the eye on attempted inward gaze. A new study from a team led by Elizabeth Engle of Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Ó³»´«Ã½ has identified and analyzed four mutations linked to the syndrome. The findings, published last week in the , demonstrate that the disease can be successfully studied in mouse models, and offer new clues to how the disease develops.
