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Exclusion of lumican and fibromodulin as candidate genes in MYP3 linked high grade myopia.
Molecular vision - 30 Nov 2004
Paluru Prasuna C, Scavello Genaro S, Ganter William R, Young Terri L
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: The proteoglycans lumican and fibromodulin regulate collagen fibril assembly and show expression in ocular tissues. A recent mouse knockout study implicates lumican and fibromodulin as functional candidate genes for high myopia. Lumican maps within the chromosome 12q21-q23 autosomal dominant high grade myopia-3 (MYP3) interval, and fibromodulin maps to chromosome 1q32. We screened individuals for lumican...
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