CFEOM3: A new extraocular congenital fibrosis syndrome that maps to 16q24.2-q24.3

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1687-1694

  Doherty, Edward J ^a   Macy, Margaret E ^b   Wang, Susan M ^b   Dykeman, Catherine P ^a   Melanson, Maureen T ^a   Engle, Elizabeth C ^b,c  

^a Atlantic Health Sciences Corporation   (Canada)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE MOVEMENT; FIBROSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; OCULOMOTOR NERVE; OCULOMOTOR NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTOSIS;

BLEPHAROPTOSIS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 16; DNA; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; GENES, DOMINANT; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LOD SCORE; MALE; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; PEDIGREE; SYNDROME;

EID: 0032991253     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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