Analysis of the ABCA4 gene by next-generation sequencing

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 8479-8487

  Zernant, Jana ^a   Schubert, Carl ^a   Im, Kate M ^b   Burke, Tomas ^a   Brown, Carolyn M ^a   Fishman, Gerald A ^c   Tsang, Stephen H ^a   Gouras, Peter ^a   Dean, Michael ^b   Allikmets, Rando ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Pangere Center for Hereditary Retinal Diseases   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABCA4 GENE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE EXAMINATION; EYE FUNDUS; GENE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MISSENSE MUTATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DYSTROPHY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; STARGARDT DISEASE; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA;

ABC TRANSPORTER; ABCA4 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; CORNEAL DYSTROPHIES, HEREDITARY; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EXONS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINAL DYSTROPHIES; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84856077133     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-8182     Document Type: Article

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