You will find four members of the bestrophin family of proteins in the human genome of which two are known to be expressed in the eye. disease. 1 Introduction Mutations in the gene gene was independently identified by two groups in 1998 (Marquardt et al. 1998 Petrukhin et al. 1998 The name ‘bestrophin’ was proposed… Continue reading You will find four members of the bestrophin family of proteins