RAX and anophthalmia in humans: Evidence of brain anomalies

Molecular Vision

Volumn 18, Issue , 2012, Pages 1449-1456

  Abouzeid, Hana ^a   Youssef, Mohamed A ^c   Bayoumi, Nader ^c   ElShakankiri, Nihal ^c   Marzouk, Iman ^c   Hauser, Philippe ^b   Schorderet, Daniel F ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^d Institute for Research in Ophthalmology IRO   (Switzerland)

^e EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOPHTHALMIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CASE REPORT; CHILD; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; OTX2 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDER; RAX GENE; SKULL MALFORMATION; SOX2 GENE; VAX1 GENE;

ANOPHTHALMOS; BASE SEQUENCE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; CONSANGUINITY; EGYPT; EXONS; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENES, RECESSIVE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; INTRONS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; ORBIT; OTX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PEDIGREE; RETINA; SOXB1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84863331030     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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