Prevalence and mode of inheritance of major genetic eye diseases in China.
Open Access
- 1 October 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Medical Genetics
- Vol. 24 (10) , 584-588
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jmg.24.10.584
Abstract
The prevalence and mode of inheritance of major genetic eye diseases have been investigated in China since the establishment of the Section of Ophthalmic Genetics of the Chinese Society of Genetics. Mass screening of genetic eye diseases has been undertaken in many districts in China, covering more than 700,000 people, and more than 5000 pedigrees of genetic eye diseases have been collected and analysed all over China. Based on these data, the prevalence and mode of inheritance of dyschromatopsia, degenerative myopia, retinitis pigmentosa, congenital ptosis, congenital microphthalmos, congenital cataract, congenital glaucoma, Leber's optic atrophy, corneal dystrophy, congenital nystagmus, coloboma of the eye, congenital aniridia, retinoblastoma, macular dystrophy, simple myopia, primary glaucoma, and strabismus have been investigated, and the results are presented.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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