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A novel locus for Leber congenital amaurosis on chromosome 14q24.
Human genetics - 1 Sept 1998
Stockton D W, Lewis R A, Abboud E B, Al-Rajhi A, Jabak M, Anderson K L, Lupski J R
Abstract excerpt
Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) is a clinically and genetically heterogeneous autosomal recessive retinal dystrophy and the most common genetic cause of congenital visual impairment. We used a DNA pooling strategy comparing the genotypes of affected to unaffected control pools in a genome-wide search for identity-by-descent on a consanguineous Saudi Arabian LCA family. A shift to homozygosity was observed in the...
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