rss
Br J Ophthalmol 2005;89:988-991 doi:10.1136/bjo.2004.061390
  • Clinical science
    • Scientific reports

Gorlin syndrome: the PTCH gene links ocular developmental defects and tumour formation

  1. N K Ragge1,2,
  2. A Salt1,3,
  3. J R O Collin1,
  4. A Michalski3,
  5. P A Farndon4
  1. 1Adnexal Service, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK
  2. 2Department of Human Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, and Department of Ophthalmology, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Birmingham, UK
  3. 3Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK
  4. 4Clinical Genetics Unit, Birmingham Women’s Hospital, Birmingham, UK
  1. Correspondence to: Nicola K Ragge MD, FRCPCH, FRCOphth, Department of Human Anatomy and Genetics, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QX, UK; nicky.raggeanat.ox.ac.uk
  • Accepted 9 December 2004

Abstract

Aim: To identify a gene linking microphthalmia with cyst with early onset medulloblastoma.

Methods: Mutation analysis of the PTCH gene.

Results: A mutation in exon 10 of the PTCH gene was identified, confirming a diagnosis of Gorlin syndrome.

Conclusions: This is the first genetically identified mutation giving rise to microphthalmia with cyst and provides a valuable link in the eye developmental gene pathway.

Footnotes

  • Ethical approval: This patient and family were part of a research study that was carried out with full ethical approval obtained from the ethics committee, Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK.

This Article

  1. Abstract
  2. Full text
  3. PDF

Responses

  1. Submit a response
  2. No responses published

Register for free content

The full back archive is now available for all BMJ Journals. Institutional subscribers may access the entire archive as part of their subscription. Personal subscribers will also have access to all content when logged in. Non-subscribers who register have free access to all articles published before 2006 right back to volume 1 issue 1. Register here to access the free archive of all BMJ Journals.

Don't forget to sign up for content alerts so you keep up to date with all the articles as they are published.