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George B. Benedek Group
Alfred H. Caspary Professor of Physics and Biological Physics in the Department of Physics
and
Professor of Physics and Health Sciences and Technology in the
Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology

Examples of genetic cataract, due to point mutations in g-D crystallin:

Cataract phenotypes (a) Aculeiform cataract (R58H) present in a 15 year old patient (b) Other genetic (congenital) cataract (R36S) present in a 5 year old patient.
Taken from Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA, 98, 6116-6120 (2001).