Article
Genetics of syndromic ocular coloboma: CHARGE and COACH syndromes.
Experimental eye research - 1 Apr 2020
George Aman, Cogliati Tiziana, Brooks Brian P
Abstract excerpt
Optic fissure closure defects result in uveal coloboma, a potentially blinding condition affecting between 0.5 and 2.6 per 10,000 births that may cause up to 10% of childhood blindness. Uveal coloboma is on a phenotypic continuum with microphthalmia (small eye) and anophthalmia (primordial/no ocular tissue), the so-called MAC spectrum. This review gives a brief overview of the developmental biology behind...
Topics
- Abnormalities, Multiple
- Animals
- Ataxia
- Brain
- Cholestasis
- Coloboma
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Humans
- Liver Diseases
- Uvea
