Mutations in the cone-rod homeobox gene are associated with the cone- rod dystrophy photoreceptor degeneration

Neuron

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1329-1336

  Swain, Prabodha K ^a   Chen, Shiming ^c   Wang, Qing Liang ^c   Affatigato, Louisa M ^d   Coats, Caraline L ^a   Brady, Kevin D ^e   Fishman, Gerald A ^f   Jacobson, Samuel G ^g   Swaroop, Anand ^a,b   Stone, Edwin ^d   Sieving, Paul A ^a   Zack, Donald J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^e Midtown Medical Center   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLOR VISION DEFECT; DYSTROPHY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HOMEOBOX; HUMAN; MALE; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; RETINA CONE; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA ROD; SCOTOMA;

EID: 0031447030     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80423-7     Document Type: Article

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