Positional cloning of the gene for X-linked retinitis pigmentosa 2

Nature Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 327-332

  Schwahn, Uwe ^a   Lenzner, Steffen ^a   Dong, Juan ^a   Feil, Silke ^a   Hinzmann, Bernd ^b   Van Duijnhoven, Gerard ^c   Kirschner, Renate ^a   Hemberger, Myriam ^a   Bergen, Arthur A B ^d   Rosenberg, Thomas ^e   Pinckers, Alfred J L G ^c   Fundele, Reinald ^a   Rosenthal, André ^b   Cremers, Frans P M ^c   Ropers, H Hilger ^a,c   Berger, Wolfgang ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^b Metagen GmbH   (Germany)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^e National Eye Clinic for the Visually Impaired Denmark   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME XP; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME WALKING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FETUS; GENES; HUMANS; INTRONS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; RETROELEMENTS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 17344363489     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/1214     Document Type: Article

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