High-resolution images of retinal structure in patients with choroideremia

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 950-961

  Syed, Reema ^a   Sundquist, Sanna M ^a   Ratnam, Kavitha ^a   Zayit Soudry, Shiri ^a   Zhang, Yuhua ^b   Brooks Crawford, J ^a   MacDonald, Ian M ^c   Godara, Pooja ^d   Rha, Jungtae ^d   Carroll, Joseph ^d   Roorda, Austin ^e   Stepien, Kimberly E ^d   Duncan, Jacque L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOROIDEREMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; PERIMETRY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; SCORING SYSTEM; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHOROIDEREMIA; DNA; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FUNDUS OCULI; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN PRENYLATION; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873346570     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.12-10707     Document Type: Article

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