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Deep Intronic Sequence Variants in COL2A1 Affect the Alternative Splicing Efficiency of Exon 2, and May Confer a Risk for Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment.
Human mutation - 1 Oct 2016
Spickett Carl, Hysi Pirro, Hammond Chistopher J, Prescott Alan, Fincham Gregory S, Poulson Arabella V, McNinch Annie M, Richards Allan J, Snead Martin P
Abstract excerpt
COL2A1 mutations causing haploinsufficiency of type II collagen cause type 1 Stickler syndrome that has a high risk of retinal detachment and failure of the vitreous to develop normally. Exon 2 of COL2A1 is alternatively spliced, expressed in the eye but not in mature cartilage and encodes a region that binds growth factors TGFβ1 and BMP-2. We investigated how both an apparently de novo variant and a polymorphism...
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