Genomic organization of zebrafish cone-rod homeobox gene and exclusion as a candidate gene for retinal degeneration in niezerka and mikre oko

Molecular Vision

Volumn 11, Issue , 2005, Pages 986-995

  Otteson, Deborah C ^a,b,d   Tsujikawa, Motokazu ^c   Gunatilaka, Tushara L ^a,b   Malicki, Jarema ^c   Zack, Donald J ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; GENOMIC DNA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

AMPLICON; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DNA ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC LINKAGE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; INTRON; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA ROD; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WILD TYPE; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EXONS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INTRONS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINAL DEGENERATION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 28344442327     PISSN: 10900535     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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