Localization of autosomal recessive congenital cataracts in consanguineous Pakistani families to a new locus on chromosome 1p

Molecular Vision

Volumn 13, Issue , 2007, Pages 1635-1640

  Butt, Tariq ^b   Yao, Wenliang ^b   Kaul, Haiba ^b   Xiaodong, Jiao ^b   Gradstein, Libe ^b   Zhang, Yan ^b   Husnain, Tayyab ^b   Riazuddin, Sheikh ^b   Hejtmancik, J Fielding ^b   Riazuddin, S Amer ^a  

^a National Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology   (Pakistan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHROMOSOME 1P; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONGENITAL CATARACT; CONSANGUINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA OPACITY; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NYSTAGMUS; PAKISTAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLIT LAMP; SUBCAPSULAR CATARACT;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CATARACT; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 1; CONSANGUINITY; CORNEA; GENES, RECESSIVE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LOD SCORE; NYSTAGMUS, PATHOLOGIC; PAKISTAN;

EID: 34548815236     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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