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ations and will lead to new screening and diagnostic tests."

"We were fortunate to have the facilities and expertise to make this discovery," concludes Koenekoop. "This project was an excellent example of genetic and ophthalmic cross-disciplinary research." About the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), located in Montreal, Quebec, is Canada's largest concentration of biomedical and health-care researchers. The institute has over 500 researchers, nearly 650 graduate and post-doctoral students and 306 laboratories devoted to research. The mission of the institute is to facilitate investigator-initiated and discovery-driven research that creates new knowledge. This research is inextricably linked to clinical programs, which provide a bench-to-bedside-to-community continuum. The MUHC research institute is renowned as a world-class research institution that operates at the forefront of new knowledge, innovation, trends, and technologies.


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Contact: Christine Zeindler
christine.zeindler@muhc.mcgill.ca
514-934-1934
McGill University
8-Oct-2003


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