First mutation in the βA2-crystallin encoding gene is associated with small lenses and age-related cataracts

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2571-2576

  Puk, Oliver ^a   Ahmad, Nafees ^a   Wagner, Sibylle ^a   de Angelis, Martin Hrabé ^a,b   Graw, Jochen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CRYSTALLIN; BETAA2 CRYSTALLIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGE RELATED CATARACT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CHROMOSOME 1; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYBA2 GENE; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROZYGOTE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOMOZYGOTE; LENS; MALE; MARKER GENE; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; MUTANT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCAPSULAR CATARACT;

AGING; ANIMALS; BETA-CRYSTALLIN A CHAIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CATARACT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ETHYLNITROSOUREA; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 79955987054     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-6443     Document Type: Article

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