Genomic structure and assessment of the retinally expressed RFamide-related peptide gene in dominant cystoid macular dystrophy

Molecular Vision

Volumn 8, Issue , 2002, Pages 67-71

  Schulz, Heidi L ^a   Stoehr, Heidi ^a   White, Karen ^a   van Driel, Marc A ^b   Hoyng, Carel B ^b   Cremers, Frans ^b   Weber, Bernhard H F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; NEUROPEPTIDE; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CHROMOSOME 7; CYSTOID MACULAR DYSTROPHY; DATA BASE; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; FAMILY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCREENING; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0036974493     PISSN: 10900535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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