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Mette Warburg
Danish ophthalmologist, born January 23, 1926, Copenhagen.
Associated eponyms:
Norrie's disease
A rare form of hereditary blindness resulting from severe retinal malformations, opacity of the lens and atrophy of the iris.
Walker-Warburg syndrome
A lethal disorder of the brain marked by hydrocephalus, cerebral agyria, retinal dysplasia and other eye abnormalities, and occasional occipital encephalocele.
Biography:
After graduating from the University of Copenhagen in 1952, Mette Warburg trained in ophthalmology and in 1966 became a certified. She has held appointments as eye surgeon and professor of ophthalmology at the University of Århus. One of her research interests has been the aetiology of blindness in mental retarded individuals, and in 1989 she became head of the ophthalmological service for persons with multiple handicaps at the Gentofte Hospital Medical School. She has been a popular lecturer and has published more than 140 articles.
We thank Patrick Jucker-Kupper, Switzerland, and Søren Nørby, Denmark, for information submitted.
Bibliography:
- M. Warburg:
The heterogeneity of microphthalmia in the mentally retarded.
Birth Defects Original Article Series, New York, 1971;7:136-154
- Nadège Bondurand, Kirsten Kuhlbrodt, Véronique Pingault, Janna Enderich, Marc Sajus, Niels Tommerup, Mette Warburg, Raoul C. M. Hennekam, Andrew P. Read, Michael Wegner, and Michel Goossens:
A molecular analysis of the Yemenite deaf-blind hypopigmentation syndrome: SOX10 dysfunction causes different neurocristopathies.
Human Molecular Genetics, Oxford, 1999 8: 1785-1789.
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