Genetics: Optic nerve genetics-more than meets the eye

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 357-358

  MacKey, David A ^a   Trounce, Ian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; EYE PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NERVE PROTEIN; OPTIC ATROPHY PROTEIN 1; OPTINEURIN; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE (UBIQUINONE); TUBULIN BETA 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; OPA1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; OPTN PROTEIN, HUMAN; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR IIIA; TUBB3 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TUBULIN;

AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT OPTIC ATROPHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GLAUCOMA; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; LEBER HEREDITARY OPTIC NEUROPATHY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; MUSCLE; OPTIC NERVE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

GLAUCOMA; GTP PHOSPHOHYDROLASES; HUMANS; MUSCLES; NADH DEHYDROGENASE; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; OPTIC ATROPHY, AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT; OPTIC ATROPHY, HEREDITARY, LEBER; OPTIC NERVE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIIIA; TUBULIN;

EID: 77954835094     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2010.77     Document Type: Short Survey

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