Mapping of a novel locus associated with autosomal recessive congenital cataract to chromosome 8p

Molecular Vision

Volumn 16, Issue , 2010, Pages 2911-2915

  Sabir, Namerah ^a   Amer Riazuddin, S ^a,b   Kaul, Haiba ^a   Iqbal, Farheena ^a   Nasir, Idrees A ^a   Zafar, Ahmad U ^a   Qazi, Zaheeruddin A ^c   Butt, Nadeem H ^d   Khan, Shaheen N ^a   Husnain, Tayyab ^a   Fielding Hejtmancik, J ^e   Riazuddin, Sheikh ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB   (Pakistan)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Layton Rahmatulla Benevolent Trust Hospital   (Pakistan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

^e NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; BEADED FILAMENT STRUCTURAL PROTEIN 1; BETA B1 CRYSTALLIN; BETA B3 CRYSTALLIN; BETA CRYSTALLIN; EPHRIN RECEPTOR A2; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; GLUCOSAMINYL (N ACETYL) TRANSFERASE 2; HEAT SHOCK TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; LENS INTRINSIC MEMBRANE PROTEIN 2; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BIOMICROSCOPY; CHROMOSOME 8P; CONGENITAL CATARACT; DNA EXTRACTION; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HAPLOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PAKISTAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

CATARACT; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 8; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LOD SCORE; MALE; PEDIGREE;

EID: 79551717688     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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