Choroideremia

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    choroideremia carrier, x linked recessive
    Description
    Fundus photograph of a 26-year-old carrier female whose father has choroideremia. Choroideremia is a rare genetic disease with x-linked recessive inheritance. Affected males have nightblindness with progressive loss of peripheral vision. Carrier females are asymptomatic but may have patchy depigmentation of retinal pigment epithelium

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