Prof. Graham R. Taylor PhD FRCPath
Head of CR-UK Genomic Service Laboratories
Visiting Professor, Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine
Hon Consultant Clinical Molecular Geneticist
Chair of UK Clinical Molecular Genetics Society
Communicating Editor, Human Mutation
Joint project leader, DMuDB.net, Diagnostic Mutation Database
Principal Investigator, Dept of Health NEAT project New genetic diagnostic technologies for consanguineous families at risk of recessive genetic disease
Honorary Member of the NIHR Faculty
President Elect of the Human Genome Variation Society
Leber congenital amaurosis is the commonest form of congenital blindness. One gene, LCA5 on Chr. 6q14, encodes the ciliary protein lebercilin. The image shows lebercilin co-localized with tubulin in cultured cells.