Progression of retinal pigment epithelial alterations during long-term follow-up in female carriers of choroideremia and report of a novel CHM mutation

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 127, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 907-912

  Renner, Agnes B ^a,b   Fiebig, Britta S ^c   Cropp, Elke ^b   Weber, Bernhard H F ^c   Kellner, Ulrich ^b,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^d AugenZentrum Siegburg ^*  (Germany)

^e RetinaScience   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE IMAGING; CHM GENE; CHOROIDEREMIA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EXON; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATOR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA MACULA LUTEA;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ADULT; CHOROIDEREMIA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELECTROOCULOGRAPHY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MUTATION; PERIMETRY; RAB GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650422664     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2009.123     Document Type: Article

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