Rare genetic variants in Tunisian Jewish patients suffering from age-related macular degeneration

Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 484-492

  Pras, Eran ^a,b   Kristal, Dana ^c   Shoshany, Nadav ^a   Volodarsky, Dina ^a   Vulih, Inna ^a   Celniker, Gershon ^b   Isakov, Ofer ^b   Shomron, Noam ^b   Pras, Elon ^b  

^a ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c WOLFSON MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; COMPLEMENT FACTOR I; HEMICENTIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN INHIBITOR; CFI PROTEIN, HUMAN; HMCN1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ADULT; AGE RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOMICROSCOPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; EXOME; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MISSENSE MUTATION; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SLIT LAMP; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; TUNISIAN; VERY ELDERLY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; YOUNG ADULT; BIOLOGY; CASE REPORT; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; JEW; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONSET AGE; PATHOLOGY; TUNISIA;

AGE OF ONSET; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPLEMENT FACTOR I; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EXOME; GENETIC TESTING; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; JEWS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TUNISIA;

EID: 84935067706     PISSN: 00222593     EISSN: 14686244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jmedgenet-2015-103130     Document Type: Article

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