Molecular anthropology meets genetic medicine to treat blindness in the North African jewish population: Human gene therapy initiated in Israel

Human Gene Therapy

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1749-1757

  Banin, Eyal ^a   Bandah Rozenfeld, Dikla ^a   Obolensky, Alexey ^a   Cideciyan, Artur V ^b   Aleman, Tomas S ^b   Marks Ohana, Devora ^a   Sela, Malka ^a   Boye, Sanford ^c   Sumaroka, Alexander ^b   Roman, Alejandro J ^b   Schwartz, Sharon B ^b   Hauswirth, William W ^c   Jacobson, Samuel G ^b   Hemo, Itzhak ^a   Sharon, Dror ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS VECTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RETINA PIGMENT EPITHELIUM SPECIFIC PROTEIN 65; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADENO ASSOCIATED VIRUS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; GENE THERAPY; HAPLOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LEBER CONGENITAL AMAUROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORTH AFRICA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETINA DEGENERATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA, NORTHERN; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEPENDOVIRUS; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LEBER CONGENITAL AMAUROSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RETINA; RNA SPLICE SITES; VISION TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78650093375     PISSN: 10430342     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/hum.2010.047     Document Type: Article

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