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Regional distribution of retinal degeneration in patients with the proline to histidine mutation in codon 23 of the rhodopsin gene.
Ophthalmology - 1 Dec 1991
Stone E M, Kimura A E, Nichols B E, Khadivi P, Fishman G A, Sheffield V C
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in the rhodopsin gene are associated with as many as one quarter of all cases of autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa (RP). A number of different rhodopsin mutations have been reported but only the proline to histidine mutation in codon 23 (Pro-23-His) has been well characterized clinically. One recent report described a "sectoral" distribution of the retinal degeneration associated with this...
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