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Genetic variants of FZD4 and LRP5 genes in patients with advanced retinopathy of prematurity.
Molecular vision - 1 Jan 2013
Kondo Hiroyuki, Kusaka Shunji, Yoshinaga Aki, Uchio Eiichi, Tawara Akihiko, Tahira Tomoko
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PURPOSE: Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a complex disease with a genetic predisposition, but little is known about its genetic background. It has a clinical resemblance to familial exudative vitreoretinopathy (FEVR), a hereditary disease characterized by defects in the development of retinal vessels. Several studies have suggested that mutations in the causative genes for FEVR may account for a proportion of...
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