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A Korean patient with lattice corneal dystrophy type IV with Leu527Arg mutation in the TGFBI gene.
Korean journal of ophthalmology : KJO - 1 Feb 2014
Kim Jinsun, Lee Kyung A, Kim Eung Kweon, Lee Hyung Keun
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An 87-year-old woman visited our clinic for a scheduled cataract surgery. At the time of preoperative evaluation, slit lamp examination showed lattice-shaped and granular deposits with asymmetrical patterns in the stroma of both corneas. Genomic DNA samples of the patient, amplified by polymerase chain reaction, showed a single nucleotide substitution, c. 1580T>G (p.L527R), in the transforming growth...
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