Poul Kjer

{{Short description|Danish ophthalmologist}} '''Paul Kjer''' is a Danish ophthalmologist who studied a condition in nineteen families that was characterized by infantile optic atrophy along with a dominant inheritance mode. In 1959, the condition was named Kjer's optic neuropathy in his honor.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Ehlers |first=N. |year=2002 |title=Danish ophthalmology from 1950 to 1975 |journal=Acta Ophthalmol Scand |publisher=dos.suite.dk |volume=80 |issn=1395-3931 |url=http://www.dos.suite.dk/pdf/DOS-1950-1975.pdf |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070702081501/http://www.dos.suite.dk/pdf/DOS-1950-1975.pdf |archivedate=July 2, 2007 }}</ref>

==Partial bibliography== * Kjer, P. (1959). "Infantile optic atrophy with dominant mode of inheritance; A clinical and genetic study of 19 Danish families". [Tr. from the Danish]. ''Acta ophthalmologica'', 54. Copenhagen: Munksgaard. OCLC 13752952 * Thiselton, Dawn L, Christiane Alexander, Alex Morris, Simon Brooks, Thomas Rosenberg, Hans Eiberg, Birgit Kjer, Poul Kjer, Shomi S Bhattacharya, and Marcela Votruba. 2001. "A Frameshift Mutation in Exon28 of the OPA1 Gene Explains the High Prevalence of Dominant Optic Atrophy in the Danish Population: Evidence for a Founder Effect". ''Human Genetics''. 109, no. 5: 498.

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