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isolated microphthalmia 6

Disease Summary
Associated Targets (1)
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Mondo Description Any isolated microphthalmia in which the cause of the disease is a mutation in the PRSS56 gene.
Uniprot Description A developmental ocular disorder characterized by small malformed eyes. Clinical features are extreme hyperopia due to short axial length with essentially normal anterior segment, steep corneal curvatures, shallow anterior chamber, thick lenses, and thickened scleral wall. Palpebral fissures appear narrow because of relatively deep-set eyes, visual acuity is mildly to moderately reduced, and anisometropic or strabismic amblyopia is common. The fundus of the eye shows crowded optical disks, tortuous vessels, and an abnormal foveal avascular zone.
Disease Ontology Description A microphthalmia characterized by autosomal recessive inheritance reduction in eye size that is restricted to the posterior segment of the eye, extreme hyperopia, and short axial length that has_material_basis_in homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the PRSS56 gene on chromosome 2q37.
Mondo Term and Equivalent IDs
MONDO:0013293:  isolated microphthalmia 6
UMLS:C3150757: