A new locus for autosomal recessive congenital cataract identified in a Pakistani family

Molecular Vision

Volumn 16, Issue , 2010, Pages 240-245

  Kaul, Haiba ^a   Amer Riazuddin, S ^a   Yasmeen, Afshan ^a   Mohsin, Sadia ^a   Khan, Mohsin ^a   Nasir, Idrees A ^a   Khan, Shaheen N ^a   Husnain, Tayyab ^a   Akram, Javed ^b   Fielding Hejtmancik, J ^c   Riazuddin, Sheikh ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

^c NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BLOOD SAMPLING; CATARACT; CHROMOSOME 11Q; CHROMOSOME 7Q; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; PAKISTAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CHROMOSOME 7; FAMILY; GENETICS; INFANT; PEDIGREE; RECESSIVE GENE;

CATARACT; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 7; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENETIC LOCI; HUMANS; INFANT; LOD SCORE; MALE; PAKISTAN; PEDIGREE;

EID: 77952314823     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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