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Severe form of familial exudative vitreoretinopathy caused by homozygous R417Q mutation in frizzled-4 gene.
Ophthalmic genetics - 1 Dec 2007
Kondo Hiroyuki, Qin Minghui, Tahira Tomoko, Uchio Eiichi, Hayashi Kenshi
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: To report the clinical features of a patient with familial exudative vitreoretinopathy (FEVR) associated with homozygous R417Q mutation in the frizzled-4 gene (FZD4). METHODS: Clinical examination and mutation analysis by direct sequencing. RESULTS: A five-month-old girl was found to have leukocoria associated with retrolental fibroplasia in the right eye and a severe falciform retinal fold in the left...
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