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A three base pair deletion encoding the amino acid (lysine-270) in the alpha-cone transducin gene.
Molecular vision - 8 Apr 2004
Piña Ana Luisa, Baumert Uwe, Loyer Magali, Koenekoop Robert K
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PURPOSE: Cone transducin plays an important role in interacting with the cone photoreceptor visual pigments and activating the cGMP-dependent phosphodiesterase. The human gene for the alpha-subunit of cone transducin (GNAT2) has been cloned and characterized. Recently achromatopsia has been associated with mutations in this gene. Cone and cone-rod dystrophies are a genetically heterogeneous group of photoreceptor...
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