Defects in the rhodopsin kinase gene in the Oguchi form of stationary night blindness

Nature Genetics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 175-178

  Yamamoto, Shuji ^a   Sippel, Kimberly C ^a   Berson, Eliot L ^b   Dryja, Thaddeus P ^a  

^a Ocular Molecular Genetics Institute   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE; RETINA S ANTIGEN; RHODOPSIN;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; NIGHT BLINDNESS; OGUCHI DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; ARRESTIN; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EXONS; EYE PROTEINS; GENES, RECESSIVE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NIGHT BLINDNESS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PROTEIN KINASES; RHODOPSIN KINASE; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 0031038950     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0297-175     Document Type: Article

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