Mutant DNA-binding domain of HSF4 is associated with autosomal dominant lamellar and Marner cataract

Nature Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 276-278

  Bu, Lei ^b   Jin, Yiping ^c   Shi, Yuefeng ^a   Chu, Renyuan ^c   Ban, Airong ^d   Eiberg, Hans ^e   Andres, Lisa ^f   Jiang, Haisong ^a   Zheng, Guangyong ^a   Qian, Meiqian ^a   Cui, Bin ^a   Xia, Yu ^a   Liu, Jing ^b   Hu, Landian ^a   Zhao, Guoping ^a   Hayden, Michael R ^f,g   Kong, Xiangyin ^a  

^a Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People s Hospital   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d People s Hospital of Yichuan   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^f Xenon Genetics Inc   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENE PRODUCT; HEAT SHOCK TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CHROMOSOME 16; CONGENITAL CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; FAMILY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; MARKER GENE; MARNER CATARACT; MISSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATARACT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 16; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INFANT; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PEDIGREE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 18544383003     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng921     Document Type: Article

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