Cloning of the canine ABCA4 gene and evaluation in canine cone-rod dystrophies and progressive retinal atrophies

Molecular Vision

Volumn 10, Issue , 2004, Pages 223-232

  Kijas, James W ^a   Zangerl, Barbara ^a   Miller, Brian ^a   Nelson, Jacque ^a   Kirkness, Ewen F ^b   Aguirre, Gustavo D ^a   Acland, Gregory M ^a,c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ABC TRANSPORTER A4; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOG DISEASE; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EXON; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POINT MUTATION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE RETINAL ATROPHY; RETINA CONE; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA DYSTROPHY; RETINA ROD; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ATROPHY; DOG; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEDIGREE; PHOTORECEPTOR; RADIATION HYBRID MAPPING; RETINA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; ATROPHY; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PEDIGREE; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RADIATION HYBRID MAPPING; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 2342579503     PISSN: 10900535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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