Usher syndrome: From genetics to pathogenesis

Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2001, Pages 271-297

  Petit, Christine ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Cadherin like protein; Cell cell junctions; Hair cells; Lateral links; PDZ domain containing protein; Photoreceptor cells; Planar polarity; Retinitis pigmentosa; Sensory cell disease; Syndromic deafness; Unconventional myosin

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; MYOSIN; MYOSIN 7A; PDZ PROTEIN; PROFILIN; PROTEIN ZO1; SCLEROPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL ADHESION; CELL JUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMAN; INNER EAR; MOLECULAR MODEL; PATHOGENESIS; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEREOCILIUM; SYNDROME DELINEATION; USH1B GENE; USH1C GENE; USH1D GENE; USH2A GENE; USHER SYNDROME; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ANIMALS; DEAFNESS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SYNDROME;

EID: 0035775666     PISSN: 15278204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genom.2.1.271     Document Type: Review

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