Mutations in the EPHA2 Gene Are a Major Contributor to Inherited Cataracts in South-Eastern Australia

• Alpana Dave,

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, Australia

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• Kate Laurie,

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, Australia

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• Sandra E. Staffieri,

  Affiliations Centre for Eye Research Australia, University of Melbourne, Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

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• Deepa Taranath,

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, Australia

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• David A. Mackey,

  Affiliations Lions Eye Institute, University of Western Australia, Centre for Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Perth, Australia, Discipline of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia

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• Paul Mitchell,

  Affiliation Centre for Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology and Westmead Millennium Institute, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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• Jie Jin Wang,

  Affiliation Centre for Vision Research, Department of Ophthalmology and Westmead Millennium Institute, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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• Jamie E. Craig,

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, Australia

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• Kathryn P. Burdon ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kathryn P. Burdon, Shiwani Sharma

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, Australia

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• Shiwani Sharma

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kathryn P. Burdon, Shiwani Sharma

  * E-mail: shiwani.sharma@flinders.edu.au

  Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, Australia

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