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New cataract markers: Mechanisms of disease.
Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry - 1 Sept 2017
Zhu Xiangjia, Zhang Shaohua, Chang Ruiqi, Lu Yi
Abstract excerpt
Cataract is caused by nutritional, metabolic, environmental, and genetic factors, and is a significant cause of blindness and visual impairment. In recent years, extensive research into the human genome has revealed that numerous genetic mutations are associated with cataract. These mutations affect a variety of genes, including those encoding crystallin, membrane proteins, cytoskeletal proteins, transcription...
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