Mutations that are a common cause of Leber congenital amaurosis in northern America are rare in Southern India

Molecular Vision

Volumn 15, Issue , 2009, Pages 1781-1787

  Sundaresan, Periasamy ^a   Vijayalakshmi, P ^b   Thompson, Stewart ^c   Ko, Audrey C ^c   Fingert, John H ^c   Stone, Edwin M ^c  

^a ARAVIND MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (India)

^b ARAVIND EYE HOSPITAL   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR INTERACTING PROTEIN LIKE 1; ASPARTIC ACID; CONE ROD HOMEOBOX PROTEIN; CRUMBS HOMOLOG 1 PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; GUANYLATE CYCLASE 2D; HISTIDINE; NEPHRONOPHTHISIS 6; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM SPECIFIC PROTEIN 65 KDA; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE REGULATOR INTERACTING PROTEIN 1; RETINOL DEHYDROGENASE 12; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INDIA; LEBER CONGENITAL AMAUROSIS; MALE; NORTH AMERICA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELES; BLINDNESS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MUTATION; NORTH AMERICA; OPTIC ATROPHY, HEREDITARY, LEBER; PEDIGREE;

EID: 70149121705     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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