Survey of patients with granular, lattice, avellino, and Reis-Bücklers corneal dystrophies for mutations in the BIGH3 and gelsolin genes

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 16-22

  Afshari, Nasrin A ^a   Mullally, James E ^b   Afshari, Mehran A ^a   Steinert, Roger F ^a   Adamis, Anthony P ^a   Azar, Dimitri T ^a   Talamo, Jonathan H ^a   Dohlman, Claes H ^a   Dryja, Thaddeus P ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GELSOLIN;

ADULT; AGED; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORNEA DYSTROPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; CORNEAL DYSTROPHIES, HEREDITARY; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GELSOLIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION, MISSENSE; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0035139506     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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