Research article

A novel HSF4 gene mutation (p.R405X) causing autosomal recessive congenital cataracts in a large consanguineous family from Pakistan

Naheed Sajjad¹, Ingrid Goebel^2,³, Naseebullah Kakar¹, Abdul M Cheema¹, Christian Kubisch^2,³ and Jamil Ahmad¹^*

¹ Faculty of Biotechnology and Informatics, BUITEMS, Quetta, Pakistan

² Institute of Human Genetics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

³ Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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BMC Medical Genetics 2008, 9:99 doi:10.1186/1471-2350-9-99

Published: 11 November 2008

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Results of linkage analysis for the markers used to analyze other cataracts loci.

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