Resources and Links

Relevant Scientific Papers

1. Jun AS, Liu SH, Koo E, Van Do D, Stark W, Gottsch JD.  Microarray analysis of gene expression in human donor corneas.  Arch Ophthalmol; 119:1629-1634, 2001.
   
2. Jun, AS, Broman, KW, Don, DV, Akpek, EK, Stark, WJ, Gottsch, JD. Endothelial dystrophy, iris hypoplasia, congenital cataract, and stromal thinning (EDICT) syndrome maps to chromosome 15q22.1- q.25.3.  Am J Ophthalmol; 134:172-176, 2002.
   
3. Gottsch, JD, Bowers, AL, Margulies, EH, Seitzman, GD, Kim, SW, Saha, S, Jun, AS, Stark, WJ, Liu, SH. Serial analysis of gene expression in the corneal endothelium of Fuchs’ dystrophy.  Invest Ophthal Vis Sci; 44:594-599, 2003. [Paper]
   
4. Gottsch, JD, Seitzman, GD, Margulies, EH, Bowers, AL, Kim, SW, Jun, AS, Stark, WJ, Liu, SH.  Gene expression in donor corneal endothelium. Arch Ophthalmol; 121:252-258, 2003. [Paper]
   
5. Yuen H, Rassier C, Jardeleza M, Green W, de la Cruz Z, Stark W, Gottsch JD.  A Morphologic Study of Fuchs Dystrophy and Bullous Keratopathy. Cornea; 24:319-327, 2005.
   
6. Gottsch JD, Sundin OH, Liu S, Jun AS, Broman KW, Stark WJ, Vito ECL, Narang AK, Magovern M.  Inheritance of a novel COL8A2 mutation defines a distinct early-onset subtype of Fuchs corneal dystrophy. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci; 46, 1934-1939, 2005. [Paper]
   
7. Gottsch, JD, Zhang, C, Sundin, O, Bell, R, Stark, W, Green, W : Fuchs’ Corneal Dystrophy.  Aberrant Collagen Distribution in an L450W Mutant of the COL8A2 Gene.  Invest Opthal Vis Sci; 46: 4504-4511, 2005. [Paper]
   
8. Sundin OH, Jun AS, Broman KW, Liu SH, Sheehan SE, Vito ECL, Stark WJ, Gottsch JD.  Linkage of Late-Onset Fuchs Corneal Dystrophy to a Novel Locus at 13pTel-13q12.13.  Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci; 47: 140-145, 2005. [Paper]
   
9. Gottsch JD, Sundin OH, Rencs EV, Emmert DG, Stark WJ, Cheng CJ, Schmidt GW.  Analysis and Documentation of Progression of Fuchs Corneal Dystrophy with Retroillumination Photography.  Cornea; 25: 485-9, 2006.
   
10. Sundin OH, Broman KW, Chang HH, Vito ECL, Stark, WJ, Gottsch JD.  A Common Locus for Late-Onset Fuchs Corneal Dystrophy Maps to 18q21.2-q21.32. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci; 47: 3919-26, 2006. [Paper]
    
11. Seitzman, Gottsch, Stark.  Cataract Surgery in patients with Fuchs corneal dystrophy.
    
12. Magovern M, Beauchamp GR, McTigue JW, Fine BS, Baumiller RC. Inheritance of Fuchs' combined dystrophy. Ophthalmology. 86:1897-923, 1979.
    
13. Doughty MJ. Prevalence of 'non-hexagonal' cells in the corneal endothelium of young Caucasian adults, and their inter-relationships. Journal of Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics 18 (5), 415-422, 1998.

Links

The Wilmer Eye Institute’s Homepage:
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/wilmer

CorneaNet:
http://www.corneanet.net/

National Institutes of Health:
http://www.nih.gov/

National Eye Institute:
http://www.nei.nih.gov/

The Public Homepage of Fuchs Friends:
http://www.fuchs-dystrophy.com

Genetics Home Reference, a project of the National Institutes of Health:
http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/info=basics

A direct link to gene mutations on Genetic Home Reference is:
http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/handbook/mutationsanddisorders/genemutation

OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance of Man) entry on Fuchs Endothelial Dystrophy of the Cornea:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/dispomim.cgi?id=136800

National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health:
http://www.genome.gov/

The Cornea Research Foundation of America:
http://www.cornea.org/

PubMed.  A place to search for scientific papers.  Search for the phrase, “Fuchs dystrophy” (without quotation marks):
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=search&DB=pubmed