Choroideremia: New Findings from Ocular Pathology and Review of Recent Literature

Survey of Ophthalmology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 401-407

  MacDonald, Ian M ^a   Russell, Laurie ^b   Chan, Chi Chao ^a  

^a NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

choroideremia; histopathology; mutation analysis; retinal degeneration

Indexed keywords

RAB PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHM GENE; CHOROIDEREMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ADULT; CHOROIDEREMIA; CODON, TERMINATOR; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 65349134246     PISSN: 00396257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.survophthal.2009.02.008     Document Type: Article

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