Molecular genetics of Usher syndrome

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 258-267

  Eudy, J D ^a   Sumegi, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Deafness; Extracellular matrix; Myosin; Retinitis pigmentosa; Usher syndromes

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN; SCLEROPROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 1Q; DELETION MUTANT; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MARKER GENE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; REVIEW; USHER SYNDROME; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

DYNEIN ATPASE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MYOSINS; SYNDROME;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033569513     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000180050427     Document Type: Review

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