Knobloch syndrome in a large Brazilian consanguineous family: Confirmation of autosomal recessive inheritance

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Knobloch syndrome is a rare genetic disorder characterized by high myopia, vitreoretinal degeneration with retinal detachment and occipital cephalocele. The inheritance has been described as autosomal recessive (AR) but in addition to the original report with 5 affected patients [Knobloch and Layer, 1971] only one other family with 2 affected sibs has been described [Czeizel et al., 1992]. We have studied a large...

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