Evaluation of the Best disease gene in patients with age-related macular degeneration and other maculopathies

Human Genetics

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 449-453

  Allikmets, Rando ^a,f   Seddon, Johanna M ^b   Bernstein, Paul S ^c   Hutchinson, Amy ^a,f   Atkinson, Andrew ^a   Sharma, Sanjay ^b   Gerrard, Bernard ^a   Li, Wen ^d   Metzker, Michael L ^d   Wadelius, Claes ^e   Caskey, C Thomas ^d   Dean, Michael ^a   Petrukhin, Konstantin ^d  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^f Laboratory of Genomic Diversity Natl Cancer Inst Frederick C ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BESTROPHIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULOPATHY;

EID: 0032814442     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004390050986     Document Type: Article

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