Identification of the mouse and rat orthologs of the gene mutated in Usher syndrome type IIA and the cellular source of USH2A mRNA in retina, a target tissue of the disease

Genomics

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 195-203

  Huang, Dali ^a   Eudy, James D ^a,b   Uzvolgyi, Eva ^a   Davis, Jack R ^a   Talmadge, Catherine B ^a   Pretto, Dalyir ^a   Weston, Michael D ^c   Lehman, Janae E ^a   Zhou, Ming ^a   Seemayer, Thomas A ^a   Ahmad, Iqbal ^a   Kimberling, William J ^c   Sumegi, Janos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BOYS TOWN NATIONAL RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Extracellular matrix protein; Gene identification; Usher syndrome

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR DERIVATIVE; FIBRONECTIN; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 13; CHROMOSOME 1Q; COCHLEA; COMPARATIVE GENE MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NEUROEPITHELIUM; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PATHOGENESIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; RADIATION HYBRID MAPPING; RAT; RETINA CELL; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; USHER SYNDROME;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0036993149     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.2002.6823     Document Type: Article

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