Positional cloning of the gene for X-linked retinitis pigmentosa 3: Homology with the guanine-nucleotide-exchange factor RCC1

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1035-1041

  Roepman, Ronald ^a   Van Duijnhoven, Gerard ^a   Rosenberg, Thomas ^b   Pinckers, Alfred J L G ^a   Bleeker Wagemakers, Liesbeth M ^c   Bergen, Arthur A B ^c   Post, Jan ^d   Beck, Alfred ^e   Reinhardt, Richard ^e   Ropers, Hans Hilger ^a,e   Cremers, Frans P M ^a   Berger, Wolfgang ^e  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b National Eye Clinic for the Visually Impaired Denmark   (Denmark)

^c Ophthalmic Research Institute   (Netherlands)

^d Clinical Genetics Center Utrecht   (Netherlands)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENE PRODUCT; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMID; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COSMIDS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EXONS; EYE PROTEINS; GENES; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEINS; RAS GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 8944241311     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/5.7.1035     Document Type: Article

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