Sequence alterations in RX in patients with microphthalmia, anophthalmia, and coloboma

Molecular Vision

Volumn 15, Issue , 2009, Pages 162-167

  London, Nikolas J S ^a   Kessler, Patricia ^b   Williams, Bryan ^b,c   Pauer, Gayle J ^a,b   Hagstrom, Stephanie A ^a,b   Traboulsi, Elias I ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CYTIDINE; GUANOSINE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PROTEIN RX; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANOPHTHALMIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOBOMA; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PREDICTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MICROPHTHALMIA; MISSENSE MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANOPHTHALMOS; BASE SEQUENCE; COLOBOMA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EYE PROTEINS; FUNDUS OCULI; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICROPHTHALMOS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 58549105948     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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