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[Genetics of retinal dystrophies--an overview].
Der Ophthalmologe : Zeitschrift der Deutschen Ophthalmologischen Gesellschaft - 1 Jul 2005
Bolz H
Abstract excerpt
Vision requires complex retinal functions, involving multiple genes with different functions. Retinal degeneration results from disturbance of retina-specific processes such as the visual transduction cascade, but also from defects in basic functions such as pre-mRNA splicing and nucleotide synthesis. As a consequence, the retinal dystrophies are genetically extremely heterogeneous (as shown in the table). Thanks...
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