Screening of the arrestin gene in dogs afflicted with generalized progressive retinal atrophy

BMC Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages

  Dekomien, Gabriele ^a   Epplen, Jörg Thomas ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RETINA S ANTIGEN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA GYRATE ATROPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 2942518497     PISSN: 14712156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-3-12     Document Type: Article

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