A novel UBIAD1 mutation identified in a Chinese family with Schnyder crystalline corneal dystrophy

Molecular Vision

Volumn 15, Issue , 2009, Pages 1463-1469

  Jing, Yang ^a   Liu, Chun ^b   Xu, Junmin ^a   Wang, Liya ^a  

^a Henan Eye Institute   (China)

^b DONGGUAN PEOPLE'S HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; UBIA PRENYLTRANSFERASE DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOWMAN MEMBRANE; CASE REPORT; CHINESE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA STROMA; CRYSTALLIZATION; EXON; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHNYDER CRYSTALLINE CORNEAL DYSTROPHY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SLIT LAMP; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BASE SEQUENCE; CORNEA; CORNEAL DYSTROPHIES, HEREDITARY; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; PROTEINS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 68149158504     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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