Visual Acuity in Patients with Leber's Congenital Amaurosis and Early Childhood-Onset Retinitis Pigmentosa

Ophthalmology

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1190-1198

  Walia, Saloni ^a   Fishman, Gerald A ^a   Jacobson, Samuel G ^b   Aleman, Tomas S ^b   Koenekoop, Robert K ^c   Traboulsi, Elias I ^d   Weleber, Richard G ^e   Pennesi, Mark E ^e   Heon, Elise ^f   Drack, Arlene ^g   Lam, Byron L ^h   Allikmets, Rando ⁱ   Stone, Edwin M ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c MONTREAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR PROTEIN LIKE 1; CELL PROTEIN; CONE ROD HOMEOBOX PROTEIN; CRUMBS HOMOLOG 1; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; GUANYLATE CYCLASE 2D; PROTEIN CEP290; PROTEIN RPE65; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE REGULATING PROTEIN 1; RETINOL DEHYDROGENASE; RETINOL DEHYDROGENASE 12; RETINOL ESTER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; KERATOCONUS; LEBER CONGENITAL AMAUROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONSET AGE; PHOTORECEPTOR; PHOTORECEPTOR CONNECTING CILIUM; PHOTOTRANSDUCTION; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INFANT; LEBER CONGENITAL AMAUROSIS; LIGHT SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 77952889862     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2009.09.056     Document Type: Article

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