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Later retinal degeneration following childhood surgical aphakia in a family with recessive CRYAB mutation (p.R56W).
Ophthalmic genetics - 1 Mar 2010
Khan Arif O, Abu Safieh Leen, Alkuraya Fowzan S, Alkurarya Fowzan S
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PURPOSE: To describe later retinal degeneration following childhood cataract surgery without intraocular lens implantation in a consanguineous family with developmental cataract from homozygous p.R56W mutation in CRYAB, a gene that encodes a heat-shock protein (alphaB-crystallin) in both retina a...
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