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Clinical characteristics of rod and cone photoreceptor dystrophies in patients with mutations in the C8orf37 gene.
Investigative ophthalmology & visual science - 12 Jul 2013
van Huet Ramon A C, Estrada-Cuzcano Alejandro, Banin Eyal, Rotenstreich Ygal, Hipp Stephanie, Kohl Susanne, Hoyng Carel B, den Hollander Anneke I, Collin Rob W J, Klevering B Jeroen
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: To provide the clinical features in patients with retinal disease caused by C8orf37 gene mutations. METHODS: Eight patients--four diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and four with cone-rod dystrophy (CRD), carrying causal C8orf37 mutations--were clinically evaluated, including extensive medical history taking, slit-lamp biomicroscopy, ophthalmoscopy, kinetic perimetry, electroretinography (ERG),...
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