The second human beta B2-crystallin gene is a pseudogene.

doi:10.1016/0014-4835(92)90036-r

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The second human beta B2-crystallin gene is a pseudogene.

Experimental eye research - 1 May 1992

Brakenhoff R H, Aarts H J, Schuren F, Lubsen N H, Schoenmakers J G

Abstract excerpt

Comparison of the partial sequences of the human beta B2-1- and beta B2-2-crystallin genes with orthologous rat or calf sequences shows that the fourth exon sequence of the human beta B2-2 gene contains a one triplet deletion and a mutated splice acceptor site. No transcripts from the beta B2-2-c...

Topics

Base Sequence
Blotting, Northern
Crystallins
Exons
Humans
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation
Oligonucleotide Probes
Pseudogenes

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