Linkage study between congenital cataracts and five crystallin loci

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 121 A, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 15-19

  Barr, Cathy L ^a   Levin, Alex V ^b,c   Kovacs, Ronald ^d   Muller, Werner ^e   Barsoum Homsy, Magda ^h   Zachary, Dalila ^e   Clark, Rakia A ^e   Tsilfidis, Catherine ^b,f,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA EYE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^h NONE

Author keywords

Congenital cataracts; Crystallin genes; Linkage analysis

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; BETA CRYSTALLIN; CRYSTALLIN; MICROSATELLITE DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CHROMOSOME 11; CHROMOSOME 17; CHROMOSOME 21; CHROMOSOME 22; CHROMOSOME 2Q; CHROMOSOME MAP; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL CATARACT; CRYSTALLIZATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0041320941     PISSN: 15524825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.20157     Document Type: Article

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