Ocular manifestations in the inherited DNA repair disorders

Survey of Ophthalmology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 107-122

  Dollfus, Hélène ^a   Porto, Fernanda ^a   Caussade, Patrick ^c   Speeg Schatz, Claude ^a   Sahel, José ^a   Grosshans, Edouard ^a   Flament, Jacques ^a   Sarasin, Alain ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF STRASBOURG   (France)

^b UPR 2169 CNRS   (France)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Base excision repair (BER); Bloom syndrome; Cancer; Cockayne syndrome; Cornea; Cunjunctiva; DNA helicase; DNA repair; Eye; Mismatch repair; Nucleotide excision repair (NER); Premature aging; Retina; Rothmund Thomson syndrome; Trichothiodystrophy; UV light

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOM SYNDROME; CARCINOGENESIS; CARCINOGENICITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COCKAYNE SYNDROME; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; EXCISION REPAIR; EYE MALFORMATION; HUMAN; MISMATCH REPAIR; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PREMATURE AGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTHMUND THOMSON SYNDROME; TRICHOTHIODYSTROPHY; WERNER SYNDROME; XERODERMA PIGMENTOSUM;

EID: 0037253076     PISSN: 00396257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-6257(02)00400-9     Document Type: Review

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