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1Department of Ophthalmology, New York University Medical Center, New York.
Documenta Ophthalmologica. Advances in Ophthalmology
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
Four of five siblings born of a consanguineous marriage demonstrated abnormalities of the lens (ectopia lentis and dense cataracts) and retina (generalized tapetoretinal dystrophy and total retinal detachment) associated with myopia. This association in an autosomal recessive pedigree has not been previously noted.
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