Physical and genetic mapping of the macular corneal dystrophy locus on chromosome 16q and exclusion of TAT and LCAT as candidate genes

Molecular Vision

Volumn 6, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 95-100

  Liu, Ning Pu ^a   Dew Knight, Susan ^a   Jonasson, Fridbert ^b   Gilbert, John R ^a   Klintworth, Gordon K ^a,c   Vance, Jeffery M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b University Department of Ophthalmology   (Iceland)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE STEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE; TYROSINE AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CONTIG MAPPING; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN;

CONTIG MAPPING; CORNEAL DYSTROPHIES, HEREDITARY; GENETIC MARKERS; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE-STEROL O-ACYLTRANSFERASE; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; TYROSINE TRANSAMINASE;

EID: 0034686147     PISSN: 10900535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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