No missense mutation in choroideremia patients analyzed to date

Ophthalmic Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 89-93

  Beaufrère, Laurent ^a,b   Claustres, Mireille ^a   Tuffery, Sylvie ^a,c  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b MONTPELLIER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c Institute of Biology   (France)

Author keywords

Choroideremia; Mutations; Transcripts analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HELICASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHOROIDEREMIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CODON; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING;

EID: 0032806670     PISSN: 01676784     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/opge.20.2.89.2291     Document Type: Article

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