Genotype-Phenotype Correlation in a German Family with a Novel Complex CRX Mutation Extending the Open Reading Frame

Ophthalmology

Volumn 114, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Paunescu, K ^a   Preising, M N ^a   Janke, B ^a   Wissinger, B ^b   Lorenz, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRX PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; LITERATURE; NIGHT BLINDNESS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NYSTAGMUS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPEN READING FRAME; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERIMETRY; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA ROD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VISUAL FIELD;

EID: 34347217878     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2006.10.034     Document Type: Article

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