# Poul Kjer

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{{Short description|Danish ophthalmologist}}
'''Paul Kjer''' is a [Danish](/source/Danish_people) [ophthalmologist](/source/ophthalmologist) who studied a condition in nineteen families that was characterized by [infant](/source/infant)ile [optic](/source/optic) [atrophy](/source/atrophy) along with a dominant inheritance mode.  In 1959, the condition was named [Kjer's optic neuropathy](/source/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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