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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-6-28
pubmed:abstractText
Congenital cataracts cause 10-30% of all blindness in children, with one-third of cases estimated to have a genetic cause. Lamellar cataract is the most common type of infantile cataract. We carried out whole-genome linkage analysis of Chinese individuals with lamellar cataract, and found that the disorder is associated with inheritance of a 5.11-cM locus on chromosome 16. This locus coincides with one previously described for Marner cataract. We screened individuals of three Chinese families for mutations in HSF4 (a gene at this locus that encodes heat-shock transcription factor 4) and discovered that in each family, a distinct missense mutation, predicted to affect the DNA-binding domain of the protein, segregates with the disorder. We also discovered an association between a missense mutation and Marner cataract in an extensive Danish family. We suggest that HSF4 is critical to lens development.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
1061-4036
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
31
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
276-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12089525-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:12089525-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:12089525-Cataract, pubmed-meshheading:12089525-Child, Preschool, pubmed-meshheading:12089525-Chromosomes, Human, Pair 16, pubmed-meshheading:12089525-Conserved Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:12089525-DNA-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:12089525-Female, pubmed-meshheading:12089525-Genetic Linkage, pubmed-meshheading:12089525-Genome, Human, pubmed-meshheading:12089525-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:12089525-Infant, pubmed-meshheading:12089525-Male, pubmed-meshheading:12089525-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:12089525-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:12089525-Mutation, Missense, pubmed-meshheading:12089525-Pedigree, pubmed-meshheading:12089525-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:12089525-Transcription Factors
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
Mutant DNA-binding domain of HSF4 is associated with autosomal dominant lamellar and Marner cataract.
pubmed:affiliation
Shanghai Research Center of Biotechnology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200233, People's Republic of China.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't