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Autosomal dominant familial exudative vitreoretinopathy in two Japanese families with FZD4 mutations (H69Y and C181R).
Ophthalmic genetics - 1 Jun 2004
Omoto Satoshi, Hayashi Takaaki, Kitahara Kenji, Takeuchi Tomokazu, Ueoka Yasuo
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Familial exudative vitreoretinopathy (FEVR) is a hereditary disorder characterized by impaired vascularization of parts of the peripheral retina. Autosomal dominant FEVR (adFEVR), a major form of FEVR and assigned to chromosome 11q13-23 (EVR1) locus, is caused by deletion mutations in the C- terminal region of the frizzled-4 (FZD4) gene. This paper describes the clinical phenotype of adFEVR in two...
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