Abbreviations Used in Tables and Text
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| AMD/ARMD | age-related macular degeneration | |
| BBS | Bardet Biedl syndrome | |
| CNS | central nervous system | |
| COD | cone dystrophy | |
| CORD | cone-rod dystrophy | |
| CSNB | congenital stationary night blindness | |
| ERG | electroretinogram | |
| FEVR | familial exudative vitreoretinopathy | |
| HUGO | Human Genome Organization (see RetNet Help) | |
| LCA | Leber congenital amaurosis | |
| MD | macular dystrophy or degeneration | |
| OMIM | Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (see RetNet Help) | |
| PXE | pseudoxanthoma elasticum | |
| RP | retinitis pigmentosa | |
| ROP | retinopathy of prematurity | |
| RPE | retinal pigment epithelium | |
| SNP | single nucleotide polymorphism, a variable DNA nucleotide |
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