The Genetics and Clinical Variables of Retinopathy of Prematurity: A Matched Case Control Study

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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Purpose</bold>: Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a major cause of childhood blindness worldwide; it is a proliferative retinal vascular disease in preterm infants. Some infants progress to severe disease despite absence of these clinical risk factors such as low birth weight, gestational age and oxygen. Genetic factors seem to have etiologic roles in retinopathy of prematurity...

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• Familial Exudative Vitreoretinopathies
• Frizzled Receptors
• Gestational Age
• Infant
• Infant, Newborn
• Low Density Lipoprotein Receptor-Related Protein-5
• Phenotype
• Retinopathy of Prematurity

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Literature Corpus work

30e60bc8-a9d0-528d-bdf8-108b14d37a94

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10.21203/rs.3.rs-1063734/v1