Characterization of a variant of gap junction protein α8 identified in a family with hereditary cataract.

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Published in PLoS One on August 21, 2017

Authors

Debbie S Kuo1,2, Jared T Sokol3, Peter J Minogue4, Viviana M Berthoud4, Anne M Slavotinek5, Eric C Beyer4, Douglas B Gould1,6

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, United States of America.
2: Department of Ophthalmology, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Palo Alto, CA, United States of America.
3: Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America.
4: Department of Pediatrics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America.
5: Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States of America.
6: Department of Anatomy and Institute of Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, United States of America.

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