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A gene for late-onset fundus flavimaculatus with macular dystrophy maps to chromosome 1p13.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Feb 1995
Gerber S, Rozet J M, Bonneau D, Souied E, Camuzat A, Dufier J L, Amalric P, Weissenbach J, Munnich A, Kaplan J
Abstract excerpt
Fundus flavimaculatus with macular dystrophy is an autosomal recessive disease responsible for a progressive loss of visual acuity in adulthood, with pigmentary changes of the macula, perimacular flecks, and atrophy of the retinal pigmentary epithelium. Since this condition shares several clinical features with Stargardt disease, which has been mapped to chromosome 1p21-p13, we tested the disease for linkage to...
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