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Human microphthalmia associated with mutations in the retinal homeobox gene CHX10.
Nature genetics - 1 Aug 2000
Ferda Percin E, Ploder L A, Yu J J, Arici K, Horsford D J, Rutherford A, Bapat B, Cox D W, Duncan A M, Kalnins V I, Kocak-Altintas A, Sowden J C, Traboulsi E, Sarfarazi M, McInnes R R
Abstract excerpt
Isolated human microphthalmia/anophthalmia, a cause of congenital blindness, is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous developmental disorder characterized by a small eye and other ocular abnormalities. Three microphthalmia/anophthalmia loci have been identified, and two others have been inferred by the co-segregation of translocations with the phenotype. We previously found that mice with ocular retardation...
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