The Marshall M. Parks memorial lecture: Making sense of early-onset childhood retinal dystrophies - The clinical phenotype of Leber congenital amaurosis

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1281-1287

  Traboulsi, E I ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR INTERACTING PROTEIN LIKE 1; CENTROSOMAL PROTEIN; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; LCA5 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM SPECIFIC PROTEIN; RETINOL DEHYDROGENASE; RP GTPASE REGULATING PROTEIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BLINDNESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLOR BLINDNESS; COLOR VISION TEST; EARLY ONSET RETINAL DYSTROPHY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EYE FUNDUS; GENE CRB1; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LEBER CONGENITAL AMAUROSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NIGHT BLINDNESS; NYSTAGMUS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA DYSTROPHY; REVIEW; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHILD; EYE PROTEINS; GENOTYPE; GUANYLATE CYCLASE; HUMANS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MUTATION; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; OPTIC ATROPHY, HEREDITARY, LEBER; PHENOTYPE; PROTEINS; RETINAL DYSTROPHIES;

EID: 77958609645     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: 14682079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2009.165654     Document Type: Review

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