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

Naheed Sajjad1 email, Ingrid Goebel2,3 email, Naseebullah Kakar1 email, Abdul Majeed Cheema1 email, Christian Kubisch2,3 email and Jamil Ahmad1 email

Faculty of Biotechnology and Informatics, BUITEMS, Quetta, Pakistan

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

Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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BMC Medical Genetics 2008, 9:99doi: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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