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Identification of novel homozygous variants in FOXE3 and AP4M1 underlying congenital syndromic anophthalmia and microphthalmia.
The journal of gene medicine - 1 Jan 2024
Akbar Warda, Ullah Asmat, Haider Nighat, Suleman Sufyan, Khan Fati Ullah, Shah Abid Ali, Sikandar Muhammad Atif, Basit Sulman, Ahmad Wasim
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Anophthalmia and microphthalmia are severe developmental ocular disorders that affect the size of the ocular globe and can be unilateral or bilateral. The disease is found in syndromic as well as non-syndromic forms. It is genetically caused by chromosomal aberrations, copy number variations and single gene mutations, along with non-genetic factors such as viral infections, deficiency of vitamin A and...
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