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Ocular findings in patients with autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa and rhodopsin, proline-347-leucine.
American journal of ophthalmology - 15 May 1991
Berson E L, Rosner B, Sandberg M A, Weigel-DiFranco C, Dryja T P
Abstract excerpt
We studied the ocular findings in eight unrelated patients with a form of autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa and the same cytosine-to-thymine transition in the second nucleotide of codon 347 of the rhodopsin gene. This mutation, detected in leukocyte DNA, corresponds to a substitution of leucine for proline in amino acid 347 of the rhodopsin protein, and, therefore, we designated this form of retinitis...
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