Leber congenital amaurosis

Molecular Genetics and Metabolism

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 200-208

  Perrault, Isabelle ^a   Rozet, Jean Michel ^a   Gerber, Sylvie ^a   Ghazi, Imad ^a   Leowski, Corinne ^b   Ducroq, Dominique ^a   Souied, Eric ^a   Dufier, Jean Louis ^a   Munnich, Arnold ^a   Kaplan, Josseline ^a  

^a HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^b Institut National des Jeunes Aveugles   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANYLATE CYCLASE; RETINOL; RHODOPSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; LEBER CONGENITAL AMAUROSIS; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DYSTROPHY; SHORT SURVEY; VITAMIN METABOLISM;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032758681     PISSN: 10967192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mgme.1999.2906     Document Type: Article

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