A screen for mutations in the transducin gene GNB1 in patients with autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa

Molecular Vision

Volumn 12, Issue , 2006, Pages 1496-1498

  Mylvaganam, Geetha H ^a   McGee, Terri L ^a   Berson, Eliot L ^a   Dryja, Thaddeus P ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; TRANSDUCIN; TRANSDUCIN BETA1 SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEMIZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INTRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EXONS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, DOMINANT; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN BETA SUBUNITS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 33845766273     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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