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Association between SCO2 mutation and extreme myopia in Japanese patients.
Japanese journal of ophthalmology - 1 Jul 2016
Wakazono Tomotaka, Miyake Masahiro, Yamashiro Kenji, Yoshikawa Munemitsu, Yoshimura Nagahisa
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: To investigate the role of SCO2 in extreme myopia of Japanese patients. METHODS: In total, 101 Japanese patients with extreme myopia (axial length of ≥30 mm) OU at the Kyoto University Hospital were included in this study. Exon 2 of SCO2 was sequenced by conventional Sanger sequencing. The detected variants were assessed using in silico prediction programs: SIFT, PolyPhen-2 and MutationTaster. To...
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