Cone-rod dystrophy due to mutations in a novel photoreceptor-specific homeobox gene (CRX) essential for maintenance of the photoreceptor

Cell

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 543-553

  Freund, Carol L ^a   Gregory Evans, Cheryl Y ^c   Furukawa, Takahisa ^d   Papaioannou, Myrto ^e   Looser, Jens ^a,b   Ploder, Lynda ^a   Bellingham, James ^c   Ng, David ^a,b   Herbrick, Jo Anne S ^a   Duncan, Alessandra ^f   Scherer, Stephen W ^a   Tsui, Lap Chee ^a,b   Loutradis Anagnostou, Aphrodite ^e   Jacobson, Samuel G ^g   Cepko, Constance L ^d   Bhattacharya, Shomi S ^c   McInnes, Roderick R ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e Unit of Prenatal Diagnosis   (Greece)

^f QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE MUTATION; HOMEOBOX; HUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DYSTROPHY;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 0030669568     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80440-7     Document Type: Article

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