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Assessment of mutations in the Best macular dystrophy (VMD2) gene in patients with adult-onset foveomacular vitelliform dystrophy, age-related maculopathy, and bull's-eye maculopathy.
Ophthalmology - 1 Nov 2001
Seddon J M, Afshari M A, Sharma S, Bernstein P S, Chong S, Hutchinson A, Petrukhin K, Allikmets R
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PURPOSE: To study the presence of Best macular dystrophy (VMD2) gene mutations in patients diagnosed with maculopathies other than classic Best disease and to describe the clinical characteristics of these subjects. DESIGN: Case-comparison study of phenotype-genotype correlations. METHODS: Patients with either age-related maculopathy (ARM; n = 259) or maculopathies other than classic Best disease (n = 28) were...
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