Gene Review:
CRYBB3 - crystallin, beta B3
Homo sapiens
Synonyms:
Beta-B3 crystallin, Beta-crystallin B3, CATCN2, CRYB3, CTRCT22
- Mutations in betaB3-crystallin associated with autosomal recessive cataract in two Pakistani families. Riazuddin, S.A., Yasmeen, A., Yao, W., Sergeev, Y.V., Zhang, Q., Zulfiqar, F., Riaz, A., Riazuddin, S., Hejtmancik, J.F. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. (2005)
- Direct assignment of the human beta B2 and beta B3 crystallin genes to 22q11.2----q12: markers for neurofibromatosis 2. Hulsebos, T.J., Bijlsma, E.K., Geurts van Kessel, A.H., Brakenhoff, R.H., Westerveld, A. Cytogenet. Cell Genet. (1991)
- A second gene for cerulean cataracts maps to the beta crystallin region on chromosome 22. Kramer, P., Yount, J., Mitchell, T., LaMorticella, D., Carrero-Valenzuela, R., Lovrien, E., Maumenee, I., Litt, M. Genomics (1996)
- Linkage between the beta B2 and beta B3 crystallin genes in man and rat: a remnant of an ancient beta-crystallin gene cluster. Aarts, H.J., Den Dunnen, J.T., Lubsen, N.H., Schoenmakers, J.G. Gene (1987)