Loss of Gap Junction Delta-2 (GJD2) gene orthologs leads to refractive error in zebrafish

Quint et al. use zebrafish lines deficient in one of two orthologs of the Gap Junction Delta-2 (GJD2) gene, which is associated with myopia by genome-wide association studies. They link gjd2 with refractive error and report evidence to suggest that gjd2a plays a role in ocular biometry whilst gjd2b,...

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Main Authors: Wim H. Quint, Kirke C. D. Tadema, Erik de Vrieze, Rachel M. Lukowicz, Sanne Broekman, Beerend H. J. Winkelman, Melanie Hoevenaars, H. Martijn de Gruiter, Erwin van Wijk, Frank Schaeffel, Magda Meester-Smoor, Adam C. Miller, Rob Willemsen, Caroline C. W. Klaver, Adriana I. Iglesias
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-06-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02185-z