An autosomal dominant posterior polar cataract locus maps to human chromosome 20p12-q12

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 535-539

  Yamada, Koki ^a   Tomita, Hiro Aki ^a   Yoshiura, Koh Ichiro ^a   Kondo, Shinji ^a   Wakui, Keiko ^b   Fukushima, Yoshimitsu ^b   Ikegawa, Shiro ^c   Nakamura, Yusuke ^c   Amemiya, Tsugio ^a   Niikawa, Norio ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autosomal dominant congenital cataract; BFSP1; Chromosome 20; Filensin; Haplotype analysis; Linkage analysis; Mapping; Posterior polar cataract

Indexed keywords

FILENSIN; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME 20P; CLONING; CONGENITAL CATARACT; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CATARACT; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 20; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; EYE DISEASES, HEREDITARY; FEMALE; GENES, DOMINANT; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LOD SCORE; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0033922770     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejhg.5200485     Document Type: Article

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