Term Name: | North Carolina macular dystrophy |
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Synonyms: | central areolar pigment epithelial dystrophy, central retinal pigment epithelial dystrophy, MCDR1, NCMD, progressive foveal dystrophy, retinal macular dystrophy 1 |
Definition: | A retinal macular dystrophy characterized by limited drusen, larger confluent drusen, or severe colobomatous-like chorioretinal atrophy in the central macular region present at birth that are nonprogressive that has_material_basis_in heterozygous mutation in a DNase I hypersensitivity site on chromosome 6q16 upstream of the PRDM13 gene. |
Ontology: | Human Disease [DOID:0070439] ( DOID:0070439 ) |