The spectrum of retinal diseases caused by NR2E3 mutations in Israeli and Palestinian patients

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 297-302

  Bandah, Dikla ^a   Merin, Saul ^b   Ashhab, Munther ^c   Banin, Eyal ^a   Sharon, Dror ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b St John Eye Hospital   (Israel)

^c SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EYE PROTEIN; PROTEIN NR2E3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARAB; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HAPLOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MALE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DISEASE; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARABS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSANGUINITY; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; ISLAM; ISRAEL; JEWS; MALE; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RETINAL DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 62449289250     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2008.615     Document Type: Article

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