Evaluation of the ELOVL4 gene in patients with autosomal recessive retinitis pigmentosa and Leber congenital amaurosis

Molecular Vision

Volumn 9, Issue , 2003, Pages 49-51

  Rivolta, Carlo ^a   Ayyagari, Radha ^b   Sieving, Paul A ^b,c   Berson, Eliot L ^a   Dryja, Thaddeus P ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXON; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; LEBER CONGENITAL AMAUROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; STARGARDT DISEASE; BLINDNESS; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; LEBER HEREDITARY OPTIC NEUROPATHY; MISSENSE MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ELOVL4 PROTEIN, HUMAN; EYE PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA;

BLINDNESS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; EYE PROTEINS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPTIC ATROPHY, HEREDITARY, LEBER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0037452456     PISSN: 10900535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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