Protocadherin-21 (PCDH21), a candidate gene for human retinal dystrophies

Molecular Vision

Volumn 11, Issue , 2005, Pages 929-933

  Bolz, Hanno ^a,b   Ebermann, Inga ^a   Gal, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; CADHERIN 23; GLYCOPROTEIN; PROTOCADHERIN 21; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; LEBER CONGENITAL AMAUROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DYSTROPHY; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; USHER SYNDROME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BLINDNESS; CADHERINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; GENES, RECESSIVE; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; USHER SYNDROMES;

EID: 27744506700     PISSN: 10900535     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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