cGMP phosphodiesterase-α mutation causes progressive retinal atrophy in the Cardigan Welsh corgi dog

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1637-1644

  Petersen Jones, Simon M ^a,b   Entz, David D ^a   Sargan, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP PHOSPHODIESTERASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; ENZYME SUBUNIT; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GYRATE ATROPHY; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; STOP CODON;

3',5'-CYCLIC-GMP PHOSPHODIESTERASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ATROPHY; BASE SEQUENCE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DNA PRIMERS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENOTYPE; INTRONS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEDIGREE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0032991252     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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