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Mutational spectrum of the SLC4A11 gene in autosomal recessive congenital hereditary endothelial dystrophy.
Molecular vision - 26 Jul 2007
Sultana Afia, Garg Prashant, Ramamurthy Balasubramanya, Vemuganti Geeta K, Kannabiran Chitra
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: Autosomal recessive congenital hereditary endothelial dystrophy (AR-CHED or CHED2) is a bilateral corneal disorder manifesting at birth or in early childhood. CHED2 is caused by mutations in the sodium bicarbonate transporter-like solute carrier family 4 member 11 (SLC4A11) gene on chromosome 20p13. We screened 42 unrelated families with CHED2 in order to establish the spectrum of mutations in SLC4A11...
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