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[The Bardet-Biedl Syndrome - Diagnosis and Follow-up].
Klinische Monatsblatter fur Augenheilkunde - 1 Mar 2020
Rohrschneider Klaus, Bolz Hanno Jörn
Abstract excerpt
The Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a rare inherited ciliopathy, which is accompanied by retinal disease, i.e. rod-cone dystrophy (retinitis pigmentosa, RP) and other symptoms, especially truncal obesity, polydactyly, renal abnormalities as well as reduced intelligence or learning difficulties. 25 BBS genes are currently known, and these are responsible for the structure and function of primary cilia. Because...
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