Genetic variations and polymorphisms in the ezrin gene are associated with age-related cataract

Molecular Vision

Volumn 19, Issue , 2013, Pages 1572-1579

  Lin, Qinghong ^a   Zhou, Nan ^a   Zhang, Na ^a   Zhu, Bidan ^a   Hu, Shanshan ^a   Zhou, Zhou ^a   Qi, Yanhua ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EZRIN; GENOMIC DNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA EXTRACTION; EXON; EZR GENE; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENILE CATARACT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AGED; AGING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATARACT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME, HUMAN; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SOFTWARE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

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