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SUBMITTER: Park JG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4908193 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
American journal of human genetics 20160512 6
Duane retraction syndrome (DRS) is a congenital eye-movement disorder defined by limited outward gaze and retraction of the eye on attempted inward gaze. Here, we report on three heterozygous loss-of-function MAFB mutations causing DRS and a dominant-negative MAFB mutation causing DRS and deafness. Using genotype-phenotype correlations in humans and Mafb-knockout mice, we propose a threshold model for variable loss of MAFB function. Postmortem studies of DRS have reported abducens nerve hypoplas ...[more]