Age matters - Thoughts on a grading system for ABCA4 mutations

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 243, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 87-89

  Lorenz, Birgit ^a   Preising, Markus N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ABC TRANSPORTER A4; LIPOFUSCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHROMATOPHORE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MONOGENIC DISORDER; NIGHT BLINDNESS; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; ONSET AGE; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; RETINA PIGMENT DEGENERATION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SCORING SYSTEM; STARGARDT DISEASE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGE FACTORS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; HUMANS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RETINAL DEGENERATION; ROD OUTER SEGMENTS;

EID: 14944374736     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-004-1078-5     Document Type: Editorial

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