Congenital hypertrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium and APC mutations in two Chinese families with familial adenomatous polyposis

Eye

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 18-22

  Pang, C P ^a   Keung, Joyce W Y ^a   Tang, Nelson L S ^a   Fan, Dorothy S P ^a   Lau, Joseph W Y ^a   Lam, Dennis S C ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

APC mutations; Chinese FAP; CHRPE

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHINESE; COLON POLYPOSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERTROPHY; MALE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA DISEASE; STOP CODON; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

EID: 0034008941     PISSN: 0950222X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/eye.2000.5     Document Type: Article

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