Communicated by Sawio L. C. WOO Aniridia (iris hypoplasia) is an autosomal dominant congenital disorder of the eye. Mutations in the human aniridia (PAX61 gene have now been identified in many patients from various ethnic groups. In the study reported here we describe PAX6 mutations in one sporadic
Three novel mutations of thePAX6gene in Japanese aniridia patients
โ Scribed by Toshio Kawano; Chunxia Wang; Yoshihiro Hotta; Miho Sato; Emi Iwata-Amano; Akiko Hikoya; Naoya Fujita; Norihisa Koyama; Shoichiro Shirai; Noriyuki Azuma; Masafumi Ohtsubo; Nobuyoshi Shimizu; Shinsei Minoshima
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 206 KB
- Volume
- 52
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1435-232X
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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