A family with autosomal dominant primary congenital cataract associated with a CRYGC mutation: Evidence of clinical heterogeneity

Molecular Vision

Volumn 13, Issue , 2007, Pages 1333-1338

  Gonzalez Huerta, Luz M ^a   Messina Baas, Olga M ^a   Cuevas Covarrubias, Sergio A ^a  

^a SECRETARÍA DE SALUD   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CYTOSINE; DNA; GAMMA CRYSTALLIN; GAMMA CRYSTALLIN D; THYMINE; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; HUMAN; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CATARACT; CODON; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EXONS; FEMALE; GAMMA-CRYSTALLINS; GENES, DOMINANT; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 34547395801     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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