Article
Childhood cone-rod dystrophy with macular cystic degeneration from recessive CRB1 mutation.
Ophthalmic genetics - 1 Sept 2014
Khan Arif O, Aldahmesh Mohammed A, Abu-Safieh Leen, Alkuraya Fowzan S
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: To describe three siblings with childhood cone-rod dystrophy and macular cystic degeneration in a family with apparently variable phenotypes of CRB1-related recessive retinal dystrophy. METHODS: Ophthalmologic examination (including electroretinography (ERG), ocular coherence tomography (OCT), and intravenous fluorescein angiography when possible) and homozygosity analysis guided candidate gene testing....
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Child
- Consanguinity
- Cysts
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- Electroretinography
- Eye Proteins
- Female
- Fluorescein Angiography
- Genes, Recessive
- Humans
