Identical Twins Who Are Discordant for Leber's Hereditary Optic Neuropathy

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 111, Issue 11, 1993, Pages 1491-1494

  Johns, Donald R ^a,h   Smith, Kyle H ^e,f   Miller, Neil R ^a,c,d   Sulewski, Michael E ^g   Bias, Wilma B ^b  

^a Nicklaus Children's Hospital Miami Children's Health System   (United States)

^b Departments of Medicine   (United States)

^c Departments of Ophthalmology   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f SCOTT AND WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^h BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DNA DETERMINATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEREDITARY OPTIC ATROPHY; HUMAN; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWIN DISCORDANCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOOD GROUPS; CASE REPORT; DISEASES IN TWINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOTYPE; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMAN; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPTIC ATROPHIES, HEREDITARY; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0027493447     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.1993.01090110057023     Document Type: Article

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