Identification of the gene responsible for best macular dystrophy

Nature Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 241-247

  Petrukhin, Konstantin ^a   Koisti, Markus J ^b   Bakall, Benjamin ^b   Li, Wen ^a   Xie, Guochun ^a   Marknell, Towa ^b   Sandgren, Ola ^c   Forsman, Kristina ^c   Holmgren, Gösta ^c   Andreasson, Sten ^d   Vujic, Mihailo ^e   Bergen, Arthur A B ^f   McGarty Dugan, Valarie ^a   Figueroa, David ^a   Austin, Christopher P ^a   Metzker, Michael L ^a   Caskey, C Thomas ^a   Wadelius, Claes ^b  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^f NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOFUSCIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA VITELLIFORM DEGENERATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; FERRITINS; GENES, OVERLAPPING; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEDIGREE;

EID: 17344364275     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/915     Document Type: Article

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