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Rgcs1, a dominant QTL that affects retinal ganglion cell death after optic nerve crush in mice.
BMC neuroscience - 31 Jul 2008
Dietz Joel A, Li Yan, Chung Lisa M, Yandell Brian S, Schlamp Cassandra L, Nickells Robert W
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BACKGROUND: Intrinsic apoptosis of neuronal somas is one aspect of neurodegenerative diseases that can be influenced by genetic background. Genes that affect this process may act as susceptibility alleles that contribute to the complex genetic nature of these diseases. Retinal ganglion cell death is a defining feature of the chronic and genetically complex neurodegenerative disease glaucoma. Previous studies...
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