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Genetic screening of leber congenital amaurosis in a large consanguineous Iranian family.
Ophthalmic genetics - 1 Dec 2007
Rezaie Tayebeh, Karimi-Nejad Mohammad-Hassan, Meshkat Mohammad-Reza, Sohbati Saeed, Karimi-Nejad Roxana, Najmabadi Hossein, Sarfarazi Mansoor
Abstract excerpt
The molecular defect of one large consanguineous Iranian kindred with Leber Congenital Amaurosis (LCA) is presented. The phenotype mapped to 17p13.1 (LCA1) and excluded from five other LCA loci. Sequence analysis of the GUCY2D gene identified a novel homozygous missense mutation (I816S) that segregated with the inherited disease-haplotype in six affected, eight parents, and two normal gene carriers. This mutation...
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