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العنوان
Registry of ocular anomalies among patients with genetic disorders /
الناشر
Karima Raafat Mahmoud Youssef ,
المؤلف
Karima Raafat Mahmoud Youssef
تاريخ النشر
2014
عدد الصفحات
153 P. :
الفهرس
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Abstract

The contribution of ocular genetics to human discovery has been exceptional, beginning with a strong interest in ocular genetics by many clinical ophthalmologists who carefully described the patterns of inheritance of familial eye disorders. A specific clinical and genetic diagnosis provides the patient and family with a framework for discussions on prognosis, treatment, and the heritability of a condition To access the weight of eye anomalies in Genetic disorders. This retrospective study was conducted at the national research center at the clinical genetics department during the period between 2011 and 2012 in addition to new cases referred during 2013-2014. We studied 61 cases of children with congenital ocular malformation whose age ranged from 4 days to 14 years with mean age of 7 years. During the period between January 2011 and december 2012 a total of 2,500 cases with genetic disorders were referred to the clinical genetics clinic of the national research center, of which 61 cases were found to have ocular malformations of different types