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SUBMITTER: Heon E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1274489 | biostudies-literature | 2001 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Héon E E Paterson A D AD Fraser M M Billingsley G G Priston M M Balmer A A Schorderet D F DF Verner A A Hudson T J TJ Munier F L FL
American journal of human genetics 20010205 3
Cataracts are the leading cause of blindness in most countries. Although most hereditary cases appear to follow an autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance, autosomal recessive inheritance has been clearly documented and is probably underrecognized. We studied a large family-from a relatively isolated geographic region-whose members were affected by autosomal recessive adult-onset pulverulent cataracts. We mapped the disease locus to a 14-cM interval at a novel disease locus, 9q13-q22 (between ...[more]