Missense variations in the fibulin 5 gene and age-related macular degeneration

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 351, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 346-353

  Stone, Edwin M ^a,b,d   Braun, Terry A ^a   Russell, Stephen R ^a   Kuehn, Markus H ^a   Lotery, Andrew J ^c   Moore, Paula A ^a   Eastman, Christopher G ^a   Casavant, Thomas L ^a   Sheffield, Val C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUSEN; FIBULIN 1 GENE; FIBULIN 2 GENE; FIBULIN 4 GENE; FIBULIN 5 GENE; FIBULIN 6 GENE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MISSENSE MUTATION; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SLIT LAMP; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGED; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION, MISSENSE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 3242719404     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa040833     Document Type: Article

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