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Given the pedigree relationships and novel phenotype, we characterized the ophthalmo-pathologic changes associated with blindness and identified the responsible gene variant. Ophthalmologic examinations of 5 blind cattle revealed retinal degeneration. Histologically, 2 blind cattle had loss of the retinal photoreceptor layer. Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) of 7 blind cattle and 9 unaffected relatives revealed a 1-bp frameshift deletion in ceroid lipofuscinosis neuronal 3 ( CLN3; chr25 g.26043843del) for which the blind cattle were homozygous and their parents heterozygous. The identified variant in exon 16 of 17 is predicted to truncate the encoded protein (p. Pro369Argfs*8) battenin, which is involved in lysosomal function necessary for photoreceptor layer maintenance. Of 462 cattle genotyped, only blind cattle were homozygous for the deletion. A query of WGS data of &gt;\u20095,800 animals further revealed that the variant was only observed in related Hereford cattle. Mutations in CLN3 are associated with human juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (JNCL), or Batten disease, which results in early-onset retinal degeneration and lesions similar to those observed in our cases. 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