Recessive mutations in the gene encoding the tubby-like protein TULP1 in patients with Retinitis pigmentosa

Nature Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 174-176

  Hagstrom, Stephanie A ^a   North, Michael A ^b   Nishina, Patsy M ^c   Berson, Eliot L ^a   Dryja, Thaddeus P ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^b CELERA   (United States)

^c JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECESSIVE GENE; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 6; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENES, RECESSIVE; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PEDIGREE; POINT MUTATION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA;

EID: 0031942582     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0298-174     Document Type: Article

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