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Leber congenital amaurosis.
Molecular genetics and metabolism - 1 Oct 1999
Perrault I, Rozet J M, Gerber S, Ghazi I, Leowski C, Ducroq D, Souied E, Dufier J L, Munnich A, Kaplan J
Abstract excerpt
Leber's congenital amaurosis (LCA) is the earliest and most severe form of all inherited retinal dystrophies responsible for congenital blindness. Genetic heterogeneity of LCA has been suspected since the report by Waardenburg of normal children born to affected parents. In 1995, we localized the first disease causing gene, LCA1, to chromosome 17p13 and confirmed the genetic heterogeneity. In 1996, we ascribed...
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