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Mutational hot spot potential of a novel base pair mutation of the CSPG2 gene in a family with Wagner syndrome.
Archives of ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) - 1 Nov 2009
Ronan Shawn M, Tran-Viet Khanh-Nhat, Burner Erica L, Metlapally Ravikanth, Toth Cynthia A, Young Terri L
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To report a 3-generation white family clinically diagnosed variably with Wagner, Stickler, and Jansen syndromes and screened for sequence variants in the COL2A1 and CSPG2 genes. Wagner syndrome is an autosomal dominant vitreoretinopathy with a predisposition to retinal detachment and cataracts. It has significant phenotypic overlap with allelic Jansen syndrome and ocular Stickler syndrome type 1....
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