Mutation screen of the TUB gene in patients with retinitis pigmentosa and Leber congenital amaurosis

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 569-573

  Xi, Quansheng ^a   Pauer, Gayle J T ^a   Traboulsi, Elias I ^a   Hagstrom, Stephanie A ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Leber congenital amarousis; mutation; photoreceptor; retinitis pigmentosa; tub; tulp

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; LEBER CONGENITAL AMAUROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MISSENSE MUTATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TUB GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONSANGUINITY; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; OPTIC ATROPHY, HEREDITARY, LEBER; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEINS; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA;

EID: 33745170000     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2006.02.003     Document Type: Article

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