Congenital cataracts and their molecular genetics.
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SUBMITTER: Hejtmancik JF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2288487 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Congenital cataracts and their molecular genetics.
Seminars in cell & developmental biology 20071010 2
Cataract can be defined as any opacity of the crystalline lens. Congenital cataract is particularly serious because it has the potential for inhibiting visual development, resulting in permanent blindness. Inherited cataracts represent a major contribution to congenital cataracts, especially in developed countries. While cataract represents a common end stage of mutations in a potentially large number of genes acting through varied mechanisms in practice most inherited cataracts have been associ ...[more]
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