Stargardt's Disease

Stargardt’s Disease Fundus flavimaculatus, or better known as Stargardt’s disease, is an inheritable form of macular degeneration. Macular degeneration is the leading cause of vision loss, which can lead to legal blindness. Symptoms are usually shown before the age of 20, where vision loss can be developed. They types of vision loss can include: blind spots, impaired color vision, difficulty adjusting to dim lighting, etc. People with the disease are very sensitive to glare. STGD1 is the most common form of Stargardt’s disease and is the recessive form that is caused by mutations in the ABCD4 gene. It can sometimes also be associated with CNGB3. Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) is organizing human studies of retinal degenerative disease