Leber Congenital Amaurosis Caused by an RPGRIP1 Mutation Shows Treatment Potential

Ophthalmology

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 895-898

  Jacobson, Samuel G ^a   Cideciyan, Artur V ^a   Aleman, Tomas S ^a   Sumaroka, Alexander ^a   Schwartz, Sharon B ^a   Roman, Alejandro J ^a   Stone, Edwin M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA GTPASE REGULATING INTERACTING PROTEIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DARK ADAPTATION; ECCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; LEBER CONGENITAL AMAUROSIS; MALE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; BLINDNESS; GENE THERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; PROTEINS; RETINA; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 34247544372     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2006.10.028     Document Type: Article

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