Abstract: The present disclosure provides inhibitors of one or more subunits of polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) for use in the prevention or the treatment of an eye disorder in a subject in need thereof and methods for treating an eye disorder, e.g. non-cancer disorders, in a subject using a therapeutically effective amount of one or more inhibitors of a subunit of polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2). In certain embodiments of the methods of the disclosure, the eye disorders are characterized by degeneration or cell death of retinal neurons. In certain embodiments of the methods of the disclosure, the subunit of PRC2 is EZH1 or EZH2, and the inhibitor is an inhibitor of H3K27 trimethylation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a transgenic pig as a model for studying a cone affecting disease, in particular a cone dystrophy or cone-rod-dystrophy, wherein the pig model expresses a dominant negative guanylate-cyclase-2D (GUCY2D) protein, in particular a GUCY2D protein comprising at least one mutation responsible for the appearance of a CORD6 cone dystrophy in a human being. The invention further relates to methods by which the transgenic pig is produced, to uses of said transgenic pig or of one of its elements to identify new biomarkers of a cone affecting disease and/or new compounds for preventing or treating such a disease. Novel methods for preventing or treating a cone affecting disease or for evaluating conditions needed to alleviate such a disease are further herein described.