Mutations in the gene encoding the α-subunit of rod phosphodiesterase in consanguineous Pakistani families

Molecular Vision

Volumn 12, Issue , 2006, Pages 1283-1291

  Riazuddin, S Amer ^a,b   Zulfiqar, Fareeha ^b   Zhang, Qingjiong ^a   Yao, Wenliang ^a   Li, Shouling ^a   Jiao, Xiaodong ^a   Shahzadi, Amber ^b   Amer, Muhammad ^b   Iqbal, Muhammad ^b   Hussnain, Tayyab ^b   Sieving, Paul ^a   Riazuddin, Sheikh ^b   Hejtmancik, J Fielding ^a  

^a NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; PHOSPHODIESTERASE; PROTEIN PDE6A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHROMOSOME 5Q; CONSANGUINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; FAMILY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAKISTAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ROD; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SCORING SYSTEM; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 5; CONSANGUINITY; CYTOSINE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; FUNDUS OCULI; GENES, RECESSIVE; HUMANS; ISOENZYMES; LOD SCORE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PAKISTAN; PHOSPHORIC DIESTER HYDROLASES; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; RODS (RETINA); THYMINE;

EID: 33750619075     PISSN: 10900535     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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