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Clinical features of codon 172 RDS macular dystrophy: similar phenotype in 12 families.
Archives of ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) - 1 Oct 1999
Downes S M, Fitzke F W, Holder G E, Payne A M, Bessant D A, Bhattacharya S S, Bird A C
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OBJECTIVE: To report the phenotype associated with the codon 172 RDS (gene for retinal degeneration slow) mutation in 11 separate families with an arginine-to-tryptophan substitution with common ancestry, and 1 family with an arginine-to-glutamine transition. PATIENTS: Screening for RDS gene mutations was performed in 400 subjects with autosomal dominant retinal degeneration. Twelve families were identified with...
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