The natural history of stargardt disease with specific sequence mutation in the ABCA4 gene

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 5867-5871

  Genead, Mohamed A ^a   Fishman, Gerald A ^a   Stone, Edwin M ^b   Allikmets, Rando ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABCA4 GENE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHOROID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; EYE EXAMINATION; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; SCOTOMA; STARGARDT DISEASE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL STIMULATION; DNA MICROARRAY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; MUTATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; VISUAL FIELD;

ABC TRANSPORTER; ABCA4 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELES; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; SCOTOMA; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73349142027     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.09-3611     Document Type: Article

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