Autosomal recessive congenital cataract is associated with a novel 4-bp splicing deletion mutation in a novel C10orf71 human gene.

"availability of data and materials the wild type and mutant c10orf71 gene sequences datasets generated and/or analysed during the current study are available in the [genbank] repository [oq575334-oq575335]. availability of data and materials the wild type and mutant c10orf71 gene sequences datasets generated and/or analysed during the current study are available in the [genbank] repository [oq575334"

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"Funding This research was funded by the Deputyship for Research & Innovation, Ministry of Education in Saudi Arabia through the project number RI-44–1238."