Nonallelism of erd and prcd and exclusion of the canine RDS/peripherin gene as a candidate for both retinal degeneration loci

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 783-794

  Ray, Kunal ^a   Acland, Gregory M ^a,b   Aguirre, Gustavo D ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b Animal Health Diagnostic Center   (United States)

Author keywords

animal model; dog; double stranded conformational polymorphism; early retinal degeneration; linkage analysis; progressive retinal atrophy; progressive rod cone degeneration; RDS peripherin; retinitis pigmentosa

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; PERIPHERIN; RNA;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DEGENERATION;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DOGS; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PEDIGREE; PHOTORECEPTORS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RETINAL DEGENERATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0029914545     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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