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Novel TMEM98 mutations in pedigrees with autosomal dominant nanophthalmos.
Molecular vision - 1 Jan 2015
Khorram David, Choi Michael, Roos Ben R, Stone Edwin M, Kopel Teresa, Allen Richard, Alward Wallace L M, Scheetz Todd E, Fingert John H
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PURPOSE: Autosomal dominant nanophthalmos is an inherited eye disorder characterized by a structurally normal but smaller eye. Patients with nanophthalmos have high hyperopia (far-sightedness), a greater incidence of angle-closure glaucoma, and increased risk of surgical complications. In this study, the clinical features and the genetic basis of nanophthalmos were investigated in two large autosomal dominant...
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