Mutation screening and genotype phenotype correlation of α-crystallin, γ-crystallin and GJA8 gene in congenital cataract

Molecular Vision

Volumn 17, Issue , 2011, Pages 693-707

  Kumar, Manoj ^a,a   Agarwal, Tushar ^b   Khokhar, Sudarshan ^b   Kaur, Punit ^a   Roy, Tara Sankar ^a   Dada, Rima ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA CRYSTALLIN; ALPHA CRYSTALLIN B; CONNEXIN 50; GAMMA CRYSTALLIN; GAMMA CRYSTALLIN C; GAMMA CRYSTALLIN D; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONSET AGE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SYNCYTIUM;

ALPHA-CRYSTALLIN B CHAIN; ALPHA-CRYSTALLINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATARACT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONNEXINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EYE PROTEINS; GAMMA-CRYSTALLINS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC TESTING; HUMANS; HYDROPHOBIC AND HYDROPHILIC INTERACTIONS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 79952820793     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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