Mutations in a novel gene, VMD2, encoding a protein of unknown properties cause juvenile-onset vitelliform macular dystrophy (Best's disease)

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1517-1525

  Marquardt, Andreas ^a   Stöhr, Heidi ^a   Passmore, Lori A ^a,b   Krämer, Franziska ^a   Rivera, Andrea ^a   Weber, Bernhard H F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; UTEROGLOBIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME 11Q; DNA FLANKING REGION; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; MISSENSE MUTATION; NORTHERN BLOTTING; ONSET AGE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA VITELLIFORM DEGENERATION;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 0031709885     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/7.9.1517     Document Type: Article

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