Mutation screening of HSF4 in 150 age-related cataract patients

Molecular Vision

Volumn 14, Issue , 2008, Pages 1850-1855

  Shi, Yuefeng ^a,b   Shi, Xiaohe ^a   Jin, Yiping ^c   Miao, Aizhu ^d   Bu, Lei ^a   He, Jianyong ^b   Jiang, Haisong ^a   Lu, Yi ^d   Kong, Xiangyin ^a,e   Hu, Landian ^a,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b SHENYANG PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Key Laboratory of Arrhythmias of Ministry of Education   (China)

^d FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CATARACTOGENESIS; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NATURAL POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AGING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CATARACT; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENETIC SCREENING; GLUTAMINE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 55349108925     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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