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Mutations in VSX2, SOX2, and FOXE3 Identified in Patients with Micro-/Anophthalmia.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology - 1 Jan 2019
Habibi Imen, Youssef Mohamed, Marzouk Eman, El Shakankiri Nihal, Gawdat Ghada, El Sada Mohamed, F Schorderet Daniel, Abou Zeid Hana
Abstract excerpt
Anophthalmia and microphthalmia (A/M) are rare distinct phenotypes that represent a continuum of structural developmental eye defects. Here, we describe three probands from an Egyptian population with various forms of A/M: two patients with bilateral anophthalmia and one with bilateral microphthalmia that were investigated using whole exome sequencing (WES). We identified three causative mutations in three...
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