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Depletion of BBS Protein LZTFL1 Affects Growth and Causes Retinal Degeneration in Mice.
Journal of genetics and genomics = Yi chuan xue bao - 20 Jun 2016
Jiang Jiangsong, Promchan Kanyarat, Jiang Hong, Awasthi Parirokh, Marshall Heather, Harned Adam, Natarajan Ven
Abstract excerpt
Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a heterogeneous disease characterized by deficiencies in various organs that are caused by defects in genes involved in the genesis, structural maintenance, and protein trafficking of cilia. Leucine zipper transcription factor-like 1 (LZTFL1) has been identified as a BBS protein (BBS17), because patients with mutations in this gene exhibit the common BBS phenotypes. In this study,...
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