Genotype-dependent variability in residual cone structure in achromatopsia: Toward developing metrics for assessing cone health

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 7303-7311

  Dubis, Adam M ^a,b   Cooper, Robert F ^c   Aboshiha, Jonathan ^a,b   Langlo, Christopher S ^d   Sundaram, Venki ^a,b   Liu, Benjamin ^d   Collison, Frederick ^e   Fishman, Gerald A ^e   Moore, Anthony T ^a,b   Webster, Andrew R ^a,b   Dubra, Alfredo ^c,d   Carroll, Joseph ^c,d   Michaelides, Michel ^a,b  

^a MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Marquette University   (United States)

^d MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Cones; Genetic diseases; Image analysis

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNIT;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS IMAGING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CNGB3 GENE; COLOR BLINDNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GNAT2 GENE; HUMAN; IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHOMETRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; YOUNG ADULT; CELL COUNT; COLOR VISION DEFECTS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; CELL COUNT; COLOR VISION DEFECTS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; RETINAL CONE PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924278273     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.14-14225     Document Type: Article

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