[Some main patterns arose from this study: 1) Patients who had vitreous opacities as the first symptom of FAP seem to form a separate group, with a distinct age of onset distribution; 2) The familial occurrence of vitreous opacities raises the possibility that other familial factors modify the expression of the FAP gene; 3) The mean age of onset for vitreous opacities is lower for homozygous than for heterozygous patients.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE