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Familial non-syndromic macular pseudocoloboma secondary to homozygous CLDN19 mutation.
Ophthalmic genetics - 1 Oct 2018
Khan Arif O, Patel Nisha, Ghazi Nicola G, Alzahrani Shahad S, Arold Stefan T, Alkuraya Fowzan S
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PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to uncover the genetic cause for non-syndromic macular "coloboma" (pseudocoloboma) in three brothers from a consanguineous family. METHODS: Homozygosity mapping for the three affected brothers and whole-exome sequencing in one affected brother, followed by confirmatory Sanger sequencing and segregation analysis of the candidate gene for all immediate family members; molecular...
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