Genetic, ophthalmic, morphometric and histopathological analysis of the Retinopathy Globe Enlarged (rge) chicken

Molecular Vision

Volumn 9, Issue , 2003, Pages 295-300

  Inglehearn, Chris F ^a   Morrice, David R ^b   Lester, Douglas H ^c   Robertson, Graeme W ^b   Mohamed, Moin D ^a   Simmons, Ian ^d   Downey, Louise M ^a   Thaung, Caroline ^d   Bridges, Leslie R ^d   Paton, Ian R ^b   Smith, Jacqueline ^b   Peterson Jones, Simon ^e   Hocking, Paul M ^f   Burt, David W ^b  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^e MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; DNA; INOSINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 22Q; CHROMOSOME 7Q; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA DETERMINATION; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOMOZYGOSITY; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PHENOTYPE; PUPIL DISEASE; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA DYSTROPHY; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BIRD DISEASE; CHICKEN; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME MAP; DISEASE MODEL; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HYPERTROPHY; LENS; MUTATION; ORBIT; PATHOLOGY; RECESSIVE GENE; RETINA DEGENERATION;

ANIMALS; BLINDNESS; CATARACT; CHICKENS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA; FEMALE; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENOTYPE; HYPERTROPHY; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MUTATION; ORBIT; POULTRY DISEASES; PUPIL DISORDERS; RETINAL DEGENERATION;

EID: 0038690448     PISSN: 10900535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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