Kerato-epithelin mutations in four 5q31-linked corneal dystrophies

Nature Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 247-251

  Munier, Francis L ^a,b   Korvatska, Elena ^a   Djemaï, Assia ^a   Le Paslier, Denis ^c   Zografos, Leonidas ^b   Pescia, Graziano ^a   Schorderet, Daniel F ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b HÔPITAL OPHTALMIQUE JULES GONIN   (Switzerland)

^c FONDATION JEAN DAUSSET CEPH   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; GENE PRODUCT;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; BLINDNESS; CHROMOSOME 5Q; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA OPACITY; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, YEAST; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 5; CORNEA; CORNEAL DYSTROPHIES, HEREDITARY; DINUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHATES; DNA PRIMERS; EXONS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; GENES, DOMINANT; HUMANS; INTRONS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 0031020733     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0397-247     Document Type: Article

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