An analysis of ABCR mutations in British patients with recessive retinal dystrophies

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 16-19

  Papaioannou, Myrto ^a,b   Ocaka, Louise ^a   Bessant, David ^a   Lois, Noemi ^a   Bird, Alan ^a   Payne, Annette ^a   Bhattacharya, Shomi ^a,c  

^a MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b LAIKO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARKER GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE ROD DYSTROPHY; RETINA DYSTROPHY; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; STARGARDT DISEASE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; DNA; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; GREAT BRITAIN; HAPLOTYPES; HETERODUPLEX ANALYSIS; HUMANS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINAL DEGENERATION; ROD OUTER SEGMENTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0033988793     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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