OMIA:000168-10141 : Cataract, generic in Cavia porcellus (domestic guinea pig)

In other species: chicken , grivet , crab-eating macaque , dog , giant panda , domestic ferret , domestic cat , lion , ass (donkey) , horse , taurine cattle , sheep , rabbit , degu , bald eagle , green monkey

Categories: Vision / eye phene

Links to MONDO diseases: No links.

Mendelian trait/disorder: yes

Mode of inheritance: Autosomal dominant

Considered a defect: yes

Key variant known: yes

Year key variant first reported: 1992

Cross-species summary: Opacity of the lens of the eye.

Molecular basis: Rodriguez et al. (1992) reported a likely causal variant as "a 102-bp deletion towards the 3' end of the coding region [of the zeta crystallin gene]. This deletion does not interfere with the reading frame but results in a protein 34 amino acids shorter."

Genetic engineering: Unknown
Have human generated variants been created, e.g. through genetic engineering and gene editing

Associated gene:

Symbol Description Species Chr Location OMIA gene details page Other Links
Cryz crystallin, zeta (quinone reductase) Cavia porcellus NW_026947484.1 (156084213..156105563) Cryz Homologene, Ensembl , NCBI gene

Variants

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WARNING! Inclusion of a variant in this table does not automatically mean that it should be used for DNA testing. Anyone contemplating the use of any of these variants for DNA testing should examine critically the relevant evidence (especially in breeds other than the breed in which the variant was first described). If it is decided to proceed, the location and orientation of the variant sequence should be checked very carefully.

Since October 2021, OMIA includes a semiautomated lift-over pipeline to facilitate updates of genomic positions to a recent reference genome position. These changes to genomic positions are not always reflected in the ‘acknowledgements’ or ‘verbal description’ fields in this table.

OMIA Variant ID Breed(s) Variant Phenotype Gene Allele Type of Variant Source of Genetic Variant Reference Sequence Chr. g. or m. c. or n. p. Verbal Description EVA ID Inferred EVA rsID Year Published PubMed ID(s) Acknowledgements
1176 Cataract Cryz splicing Naturally occurring variant "a 102-bp deletion towards the 3' end of the coding region. This deletion does not interfere with the reading frame but results in a protein 34 amino acids shorter." (Rodriguez et al., 1992) 1992 1390943

Cite this entry

Nicholas, F. W., Tammen, I., & Sydney Informatics Hub. (2020). OMIA:000168-10141: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA) [dataset]. https://omia.org/. https://doi.org/10.25910/2AMR-PV70

References

Note: the references are listed in reverse chronological order (from the most recent year to the earliest year), and alphabetically by first author within a year.

1997 Bettelheim, F.A., Churchill, A.C., Zigler, J.S. :
On the nature of hereditary cataract in strain 13/N guinea pigs Current Eye Research 16:917-924, 1997. Pubmed reference: 9288453.
1992 Rao, P.V., Krishna, C.M., Zigler, J.S. :
Identification and characterization of the enzymatic activity of zeta-crystallin from guinea pig lens. A novel NADPH:quinone oxidoreductase. J Biol Chem 267:96-102, 1992. Pubmed reference: 1370456.
Rao, P.V., Zigler, J.S. :
Mutant zeta-crystallin from guinea-pig hereditary cataracts has altered structural and enzymatic properties. Exp Eye Res 54:627-30, 1992. Pubmed reference: 1623948. DOI: 10.1016/0014-4835(92)90142-f.
Rodriguez, I.R., Gonzalez, P., Zigler, J.S., Borrás, T. :
A guinea-pig hereditary cataract contains a splice-site deletion in a crystallin gene. Biochim Biophys Acta 1180:44-52, 1992. Pubmed reference: 1390943. DOI: 10.1016/0925-4439(92)90025-i.
1991 Tripathi, B.J., Tripathi, R.C., Borisuth, N.S., Dhaliwal, R., Dhaliwal, D. :
Rodent models of congenital and hereditary cataract in man. Lens Eye Toxic Res 8:373-413, 1991. Pubmed reference: 1958636.
1990 Borrás, T., Jörnvall, H., Rodokanaki, A., Gonzalez, P., Rodriguez, I., Hernandez-Calzadilla, C. :
The transcripts of zeta-crystallin, a lens protein related to the alcohol dehydrogenase family, are altered in a guinea-pig hereditary cataract. Exp Eye Res 50:729-35, 1990. Pubmed reference: 1695576. DOI: 10.1016/0014-4835(90)90122-b.
Huang, Q.L., Du, X.Y., Stone, S.H., Amsbaugh, D.F., Datiles, M., Hu, T.S., Zigler, J.S. :
Association of hereditary cataracts in strain 13/N guinea-pigs with mutation of the gene for zeta-crystallin. Exp Eye Res 50:317-25, 1990. Pubmed reference: 2318275. DOI: 10.1016/0014-4835(90)90217-i.
1984 Amsbaugh, D.F., Stone, S.H. :
Autosomal dominant congenital nuclear cataracts in strain 13/N guinea pigs. J Hered 75:55-8, 1984. Pubmed reference: 6538586. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a109865.

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