Blind attraction: The mechanism of an inherited congenital cataract

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 437-438

  Asherie, Neer ^a  

^a YESHIVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; BETA CRYSTALLIN; GAMMA CRYSTALLIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; LENS PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PHENYLALANINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BLINDNESS; CONGENITAL CATARACT; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYDROPHOBICITY; IN VIVO STUDY; INHERITANCE; LENS; LENS FIBER; LIGHT SCATTERING; NOTE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; VISION;

ALANINE; CATARACT; CRYSTALLINS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; LIGHT; MUTATION; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 79551670249     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1017543108     Document Type: Note

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