Screening of the eight BBS genes in Tunisian families: No evidence of triallelism

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 3487-3495

  Smaoui, Nizar ^a,b   Chaabouni, Myriam ^b   Sergeev, Yuri V ^a   Kallel, Habib ^c   Li, Shouling ^a   Mahfoudh, Neila ^d   Maazoul, Faouzi ^b   Kammoun, Hassen ^d   Gandoura, Najoua ^e   Bouaziz, Asma ^f   Nouiri, Ezzedine ^g   M'Rad, Ridha ^b   Chaabouni, Habiba ^b   Hejtmancik, J Fielding ^a  

^a NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CHARLES NICOLLE HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

^c Hospital of Ras Djebel   (Tunisia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CARTHAGE   (Tunisia)

^f Pediatric Department   (Tunisia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS EL MANAR   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; BARDET BIEDL SYNDROME; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUNISIA; ALLELE; CONSANGUINITY; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; RECESSIVE GENE;

MICROSATELLITE DNA; PROTEIN;

ALLELES; BARDET-BIEDL SYNDROME; CONSANGUINITY; FEMALE; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; PROTEINS; TUNISIA;

EID: 33748093622     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.05-1334     Document Type: Article

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