Frequency of mutations in the gene encoding the α subunit of rod cGMP- phosphodiesterase in autosomal recessive retinitis pigmentosa

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1859-1865

  Dryja, Thaddeus P ^a   Rucinski, David E ^a   Chen, Sherleen Huang ^a   Berson, Eliot L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP PHOSPHODIESTERASE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONSENSE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ROD; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

3',5'-CYCLIC-GMP PHOSPHODIESTERASE; DNA PRIMERS; EXONS; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, RECESSIVE; HUMANS; MALE; PEDIGREE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; RODS (RETINA); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0033056620     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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