Mutation G61C in the CRYGD gene causing autosomal dominant congenital coralliform cataracts

Molecular Vision

Volumn 14, Issue , 2008, Pages 378-386

  Li, Feifeng ^a,b   Wang, Shuzhen ^c   Gao, Chang ^a,b   Liu, Shiguo ^a,b   Zhao, Baojian ^a,b   Zhang, Meng ^b   Huang, Shangzhi ^b   Zhu, Siquan ^c   Ma, Xu ^a,b,d  

^a GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY PLANNING   (China)

^c CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d WHO Collaborative Center for Research in Human Reproduction   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; CYTOSINE; GAMMA CRYSTALLIN; GLYCINE; GUANINE; MUTANT PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; BIOINFORMATICS; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CODON; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONGENITAL CATARACT; CONGENITAL CORALLIFORM CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; ONLINE SYSTEM; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SLIT LAMP; WILD TYPE;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CATARACT; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; CRYSTALLINS; CYSTEINE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENES, DOMINANT; GENETIC MARKERS; GLYCINE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; LOD SCORE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; PEDIGREE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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