Autosomal dominant zonular cataract with sutural opacities localized to chromosome 17q11-12. |
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Authors: | T Padma R Ayyagari J S Murty S Basti T Fletcher G N Rao M Kaiser-Kupfer J F Hejtmancik |
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Affiliation: | National Eye Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. |
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Abstract: | Congenital cataracts constitute a morphologically and genetically heterogeneous group of diseases that are a major cause of childhood blindness. Different loci for hereditary congenital cataracts have been mapped to chromosomes 1, 2, 16, and 17q24. We report linkage of a gene causing a unique form of autosomal dominant zonular cataracts with Y-sutural opacities to chromosome 17q11-12 in a three-generation family exhibiting a maximum lod score of 3.9 at D17S805. Multipoint analysis gave a 1-lod confidence interval of 17 cM. This interval is bounded by the markers D17S799 and D17S798, a region that would encompass a number of candidate genes including that coding for beta A3/A1-crystallin. |
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