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SUBMITTER: Messina-Baas O
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5465711 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Messina-Baas Olga O Cuevas-Covarrubias Sergio A SA
Molecular syndromology 20170207 2
Cataracts are the principal cause of treatable blindness worldwide. Inherited congenital cataract (CC) shows all types of inheritance patterns in a syndromic and nonsyndromic form. There are more than 100 genes associated with cataract with a predominance of autosomal dominant inheritance. A cataract is defined as an opacity of the lens producing a variation of the refractive index of the lens. This variation derives from modifications in the lens structure resulting in light scattering, frequen ...[more]