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Inherited Congenital Cataract: A Guide to Suspect the Genetic Etiology in the Cataract Genesis
1 Jan 2017
Abstract excerpt
Cataracts are the principal cause of treatable blindness worldwide. Inherited congenital cataract (CC) shows all types of inheritance patterns in a syndromic and nonsyndromic form. There are more than 100 genes associated with cataract with a predominance of autosomal dominant inheritance. A cataract is defined as an opacity of the lens producing a variation of the refractive index of the lens. This variation...
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