Study links DNA, smoking to adult blindness

Published April 26, 2007 4:00am ET



Genes have been linked to adult blindness ? but these findings do not absolve you from taking care of your health to fend off severe eye disease.

Two genes have been linked to adult macular degeneration, but unhealthy habits can seriously accelerate the loss of vision, according to an article in The Journal of the American Medical Association today.

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