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Disease progression in patients with dominant retinitis pigmentosa and rhodopsin mutations.
Investigative ophthalmology & visual science - 1 Sept 2002
Berson Eliot L, Rosner Bernard, Weigel-DiFranco Carol, Dryja Thaddeus P, Sandberg Michael A
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PURPOSE: To measure the rate of progression of retinal degeneration in patients with retinitis pigmentosa due to dominant rhodopsin mutations and to determine whether the rate of progression correlates with the location of the altered amino acid in the rhodopsin molecule. METHODS: Change in ocular function was observed for an average of 8.7 years in 140 patients. After censoring data to eliminate "ceiling" and...
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