Genetic variations in GJA3, GJA8, LIM2, and age-related cataract in the Chinese population: A mutation screening study

Molecular Vision

Volumn 17, Issue , 2011, Pages 621-626

  Zhou, Zhou ^a   Wang, Binbin ^b   Hu, Shanshan ^a   Zhang, Chunmei ^a   Ma, Xu ^b   Qi, Yanhua ^a  

^a THE SECOND AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR FAMILY PLANNING   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 46; GAP JUNCTION ALPHA 8 PROTEIN; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; LENS INTRINSIC MEMBRANE PROTEIN 2; LIM PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PREDICTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; LENS FIBER; MALE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION;

AGING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BASE SEQUENCE; CATARACT; CHINA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONNEXINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENETIC TESTING; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79952828806     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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