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Clinical evaluation of two consanguineous families with homozygous mutations in BEST1.
Molecular vision - 1 Jan 2011
Piñeiro-Gallego Teresa, Álvarez María, Pereiro Inés, Campos Severiano, Sharon Dror, Schatz Patrik, Valverde Diana
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PURPOSE: To describe the clinical and genetic findings in two consanguineous families with Best vitelliform macular dystrophy (BVMD) and homozygous mutations in the bestrophin-1 (BEST1) gene. METHODS: Ophthalmologic examination was performed in eight members of two families originating from Spain and Denmark. Mutation screening was performed using the Vitelliform Macular Dystrophy mutation array from Asper...
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