Identification of three ABCA4 sequence variations exclusive to African American patients in a cohort of patients with stargardt disease

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 156, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Utz, Virginia Miraldi ^a   Chappelow, Aimee V ^a   Marino, Meghan J ^a   Beight, Craig D ^a   Sturgill Short, Gwen M ^b   Pauer, Gayle J T ^a   Crowe, Susan ^a   Hagstrom, Stephanie A ^a,c   Traboulsi, Elias I ^a,c  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ABC TRANSPORTER A4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STARGARDT DISEASE;

EID: 84887950272     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: 18791891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2013.07.008     Document Type: Article

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