PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - L B Giebel
AU  - M A Musarella
AU  - R A Spritz
TI  - A nonsense mutation in the tyrosinase gene of Afghan patients with tyrosinase negative (type IA) oculocutaneous albinism.
AID  - 10.1136/jmg.28.7.464
DP  - 1991 Jul 01
TA  - Journal of Medical Genetics
PG  - 464--467
VI  - 28
IP  - 7
4099  - http://jmg.bmj.com/content/28/7/464.short
4100  - http://jmg.bmj.com/content/28/7/464.full
SO  - J Med Genet1991 Jul 01; 28
AB  - We detected a nonsense mutation in the tyrosinase gene of two Afghan sibs with classical tyrosinase negative (type IA) oculocutaneous albinism. The mutation, a single base substitution at codon 178, creates an amber termination codon that truncates the 529 amino acid tyrosinase polypeptide at this position. The patients' parents are first cousins, and the patients are therefore homoallelic for this mutation.