Congenital megalocornea with zonular weakness and childhood lens-related secondary glaucoma - a distinct phenotype caused by recessive LTBP2 mutations

Molecular Vision

Volumn 17, Issue , 2011, Pages 2570-2579

  Khan, Arif O ^a,b   Aldahmesh, Mohammed A ^b   Alkuraya, Fowzan S ^b,c,d  

^a KING KHALED EYE SPECIALIST HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

^c KING KHALID UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

^d ALFAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; ARTICLE; BUPHTHALMOS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONGENITAL MEGALOCORNEA; CONSANGUINITY; CORNEA DISEASE; DNA SEQUENCE; ECTOPIA LENTIS; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; INFANT; LATENT TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA BINDING PROTEIN 2 GENE; LENS DISEASE; LENS LUXATION; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAUDI ARABIA; SECONDARY GLAUCOMA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPHEROPHAKIA;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSANGUINITY; CORNEA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ECTOPIA LENTIS; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOTYPE; GLAUCOMA; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; INFANT; LATENT TGF-BETA BINDING PROTEINS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; PHENOTYPE; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 83055199997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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