ABCR gene analysis in familial exudative age-related macular degeneration

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 244-247

  Souied, Eric H ^a,b   Ducroq, Dominique ^a   Rozet, Jean Michel ^a   Gerber, Sylvie ^a   Perrault, Isabelle ^a   Munnich, Arnold ^a   Coscas, Gabriel ^b   Soubrane, Gisèle ^b,c   Kaplan, Josseline ^a  

^a HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^b Clinique Oplithamologique   (France)

^c Spécialisation dans les industries alimentaires et biologiques   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RISK; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

AGED; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CODON; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PEDIGREE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; ROD OUTER SEGMENTS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0033989077     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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