Full-field electroretinography and marked variability in clinical phenotype of Alström syndrome

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 51-57

  Malm, Eva ^a   Ponjavic, Vesna ^a   Nishina, Patsy M ^b   Naggert, Jürgen K ^b   Hinman, Elizabeth G ^b   Andréasson, Sten ^a   Marshall, Jan D ^b   Möller, Claes ^c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALSTROM SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COLOR VISION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ONSET AGE; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PERIMETRY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; VISUAL FIELD;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; CHILD; COLOR VISION DEFECTS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, SENSORINEURAL; HUMANS; MUTATION; OBESITY; PERIMETRY; PHENOTYPE; PHOTORECEPTORS, VERTEBRATE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEINS; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SYNDROME; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 38349062524     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 00039950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2007.28     Document Type: Article

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