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Peters anomaly
Pathology:
- central corneal leukoma
- absence of the posterior corneal stroma & Descemet membrane
- variable degree of iris & lenticular attachments to central- posterior cornea
Genetics:
- associated with defects in CYP1B1
- associated with defects in FOXC1
- associated with defects in PAX6
- chromosomal translocation t(1;7)(q41;p21) involving HDAC9 with TGFB2 is found in a family with Peters anomaly
General
congenital anomaly (birth defect)
genetic disease of the eye
Database Correlations
OMIM 604229
References
OMIM :accession 604229