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[Mutations of the frizzled-4 gene. Their impact on medical care of patients with autosomal dominant exudative vitreoretinopathy].
Der Ophthalmologe : Zeitschrift der Deutschen Ophthalmologischen Gesellschaft - 1 Mar 2008
Müller M, Kusserow C, Orth U, Klär-Dissars U, Laqua H, Gal A
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PURPOSE: Autosomal dominant (familial) exudative vitreoretinopathy (adEVR) is a rare, congenital disease of the retinal vascular system, which may lead to blindness in severely affected eyes. One of the causative disease genes is located on chromosome 11q13-q23 and codes for "frizzled-4" (FZD4),...
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