Protein networks related to the usher syndrome gain insights in the molecular basis of the disease

Usher Syndrome: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 51-73

  Wolfrum, Uwe ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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