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Mitochondrial sequence changes in keratoconus patients.
Investigative ophthalmology & visual science - 20 Mar 2014
Abu-Amero Khaled K, Azad Taif Anwar, Kalantan Hatem, Sultan Tahira, Al-Muammar Abdulrahman M
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PURPOSE: We investigated whether a group of patients with keratoconus (KTCN) harbor mutations in the mitochondrial genome. METHODS: We sequenced the full mitochondrial genome in a group of Saudi patients with KTCN (n = 26) and 100 ethnically matched controls who had no KTCN by examination. RESULT...
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