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Mutational screening of EFNA5 in Chinese age-related cataract patients.
Ophthalmic research - 1 Jan 2014
Lin Qinghong, Zhou Nan, Zhang Na, Qi Yanhua
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND/AIM: In the past few years, Ephrin-A5 (EFNA5) had been identified to be associated with lens development, but so far no sequence variation in EFNA5 has been reported in humans. Therefore, we conduct this study to investigate the EFNA5 genetic variations in Chinese age-related cataract (ARC) patients. METHODS: Sequencing of EFNA5 was performed in 140 sporadic ARC patients and 142 random unrelated...
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