Analysis of RPGR in a South African family with X-linked retinitis pigmentosa: Research and diagnostic implications

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 137-141

  Rebello, George ^a   Vorster, A ^a   Greenberg, J ^a   Coutts, N ^a   Roberts, L ^a   Ehrenreich, L ^a   Gama, D ^a   Ramesar, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

ORF15; RPGR; X linked retinitis pigmentosa

Indexed keywords

EYE PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; PRIMER DNA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RPGR PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; HEALTH STATUS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOUTH AFRICA; SYMPTOM; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; EYE PROTEINS; GENETIC DISEASES, X-LINKED; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0043133532     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0004.2003.00090.x     Document Type: Article

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