This is a report on the nature of the mutations in the PAX6 gene in twenty patients with aniridia. Five of the twenty patients had sporadic aniridia with deletions in chromosome 11p13. Three of the five had WAGR syndrome (Wilms tumor, aniridia, genitourinary anomalies, mental retardation), and the o
The human PAX6 gene is mutated in two patients with aniridia
โ Scribed by Jordan, Tim; Hanson, Isabel; Zaletayev, Dmitri; Hodgson, Shirley; Prosser, Jane; Seawright, Anne; Hastie, Nicholas; van Heyningen, Veronica
- Book ID
- 109916625
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 650 KB
- Volume
- 1
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1061-4036
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