REP-1 gene mutations in Japanese patients with choroideremia

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 237, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 735-740

  Fujiki, Keiko ^a   Hotta, Yoshihiro ^a   Hayakawa, Mutsuko ^a   Saito, Akio ^a   Mashima, Yukihiko ^b   Mori, Mikiro ^c   Yoshii, Masaru ^d   Murakami, Akira ^d   Matsumoto, Masayuki ^e   Hayasaka, Seiji ^e   Tagami, Nobuko ^f   Isashiki, Yasushi ^g   Ohba, Norio ^g   Kanai, Atsushi ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^f KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHOROIDEREMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHOROIDEREMIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RAB GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0032870696     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004170050305     Document Type: Article

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