Analysis of the RPGR gene in 11 pedigrees with the retinitis pigmentosa type 3 genotype: Paucity of mutations in the coding region but splice defects in two families

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 571-580

  Fujita, Ricardo ^a   Buraczynska, Monika ^a,e   Gieser, Linn ^a   Wu, Weiping ^a   Forsythe, Patricia ^a   Abrahamson, Magnus ^c   Jacobson, Samuel G ^d   Sieving, Paul A ^a   Andréasson, Sten ^c   Swaroop, Anand ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME DELETION; FAMILY STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 16944362660     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/515523     Document Type: Article

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