 gamma-Crystallins
"gamma-Crystallins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A subclass of crystallins that found in the lens (LENS, CRYSTALLINE) of VERTEBRATES. Gamma-crystallins are similar in structure to BETA-CRYSTALLINS in that they both form into a Greek key-like structure. They are composed of monomeric subunits.
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D038222
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.306.366.850
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| Concept/Terms |
gamma-Crystallins- gamma-Crystallins
- gamma Crystallins
- Crystallins, gamma
- gamma-Crystallin
- gamma Crystallin
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| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "gamma-Crystallins" by people in Profiles.
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Gharahkhani P, Burdon KP, Cooke Bailey JN, Hewitt AW, Law MH, Pasquale LR, Kang JH, Haines JL, Souzeau E, Zhou T, Siggs OM, Landers J, Awadalla M, Sharma S, Mills RA, Ridge B, Lynn D, Casson R, Graham SL, Goldberg I, White A, Healey PR, Grigg J, Lawlor M, Mitchell P, Ruddle J, Coote M, Walland M, Best S, Vincent A, Gale J, RadfordSmith G, Whiteman DC, Montgomery GW, Martin NG, Mackey DA, Wiggs JL, MacGregor S, Craig JE. Analysis combining correlated glaucoma traits identifies five new risk loci for open-angle glaucoma. Sci Rep. 2018 02 15; 8(1):3124.
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Plotnikova OV, Kondrashov FA, Vlasov PK, Grigorenko AP, Ginter EK, Rogaev EI. Conversion and compensatory evolution of the gamma-crystallin genes and identification of a cataractogenic mutation that reverses the sequence of the human CRYGD gene to an ancestral state. Am J Hum Genet. 2007 Jul; 81(1):32-43.
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