PAX6 haploinsufficiency causes cerebral malformation and olfactory dysfunction in humans
- 1 July 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature Genetics
- Vol. 28 (3), 214-216
- https://doi.org/10.1038/90042
Abstract
PAX6 is widely expressed in the central nervous system. Heterozygous PAX6 mutations in human aniridia cause defects that would seem to be confined to the eye1. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and smell testing reveal the absence or hypoplasia of the anterior commissure and reduced olfaction in a large proportion of aniridia cases, which shows that PAX6 haploinsuffiency causes more widespread human neuro developmental anomalies.Keywords
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