Data from the UK Biobank is being used by researchers to learn more about rare eye conditions.
The retina is located behind the pupil of the eye. It is a layered tissue that receives light and turns it into a signal that the brain can understand. Each retinal layer has many cell types that each perform a distinct role in the light conversion process.
Rare Eye Conditions
The researchers focused on photoreceptor cells (PRCs), which are light-detecting cells present in the retina, for their study, which was published in the journal PLOS Genetics.