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Conradi-Hünermann syndrome with ocular anomalies
Y Tanaka1, A Saitoh, H Taniguchi
1Department of Ophthalmology, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Sakamoto, Nagasaki, Japan.
Ophthalmic Genetics
|January 5, 2000
Abstract:
We report a Japanese girl with the Conradi-Hünermann form of chondrodysplasia punctata and anterior segment malformations characteristic of Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome. The patient also had cataracts and unilateral optic atrophy. A possible role for homeobox-containing genes in the etiology of this type of chondrodysplasia punctata is suggested as an explanation for the coincidence of these two syndromes.