Identification of 51 Novel Exons of the Usher Syndrome Type 2A (USH2A) Gene That Encode Multiple Conserved Functional Domains and That Are Mutated in Patients with Usher Syndrome Type II

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 738-744

  Van Wijk, Erwin ^a   Pennings, Ronald J E ^a   Te Brinke, Heleen ^a   Claassen, Annemarie ^a   Yntema, Helger G ^a   Hoefsloot, Lies H ^a   Cremers, Frans P M ^a   Cremers, W R J ^a   Kremer, Hannie ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRONECTIN; FIBRONECTIN 3; LAMININ; LAMININ G; PDZ PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HEARING; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MISSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; USH2A GENE; USHER SYNDROME; VISION;

EID: 1842592042     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/383096     Document Type: Article

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