Retinal degenerations with truncation mutations in the cone-rod homeobox (CRX) gene

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2417-2426

  Jacobson, Samuel G ^a   Cideciyan, Artur V ^a   Huang, Yijun ^a   Hanna, David B ^a   Freund, Carol L ^b   Affatigato, Louisa M ^c   Carr, Ronald E ^d   Zack, Donald J ^e   Stone, Edwin M ^c   McInnes, Roderick R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HOMEOBOX; HUMAN; LEBER CONGENITAL AMAUROSIS; MALE; PERIMETRY; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA MALFORMATION; RETINA ROD; SCHOOL CHILD; TOMOGRAPHY; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADULT; CHILD; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; PERIMETRY; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINAL DEGENERATION; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0031790083     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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