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Autosomal-recessive early-onset retinitis pigmentosa caused by a mutation in PDE6G, the gene encoding the gamma subunit of rod cGMP phosphodiesterase.
American journal of human genetics - 13 Aug 2010
Dvir Liron, Srour Gassoub, Abu-Ras Rasmi, Miller Benjamin, Shalev Stavit A, Ben-Yosef Tamar
Abstract excerpt
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is the most common form of hereditary retinal degeneration, with a worldwide prevalence of 1 in 4000. Over 30 genes and loci have been implicated in nonsyndromic autosomal-recessive (ar) RP. Genome-wide homozygosity mapping was conducted in two sibships from an extended consanguineous Muslim Arab Israeli family segregating ar severe early-onset RP. A shared homozygous region on...
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