A practical diagnostic test for choroideremia

Ophthalmology

Volumn 105, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1637-1640

  MacDonald, Ian M ^a   Mah, Dean Y ^a   Ho, Y K ^b   Lewis, Richard Alan ^c,d   Seabra, Miguel C ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Research to Prevent Blindness   (United States)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CHOROID DISEASE; CHOROIDEREMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 0031732871     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-6420(98)99031-5     Document Type: Article

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