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A mutation in ZNF513, a putative regulator of photoreceptor development, causes autosomal-recessive retinitis pigmentosa.
American journal of human genetics - 10 Sept 2010
Li Lin, Nakaya Naoki, Chavali Venkata R M, Ma Zhiwei, Jiao Xiaodong, Sieving Paul A, Riazuddin Sheikh, Tomarev Stanislav I, Ayyagari Radha, Riazuddin S Amer, Hejtmancik J Fielding
Abstract excerpt
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a phenotypically and genetically heterogeneous group of inherited retinal degenerations characterized clinically by night blindness, progressive constriction of the visual fields, and loss of vision, and pathologically by progressive loss of rod and then cone photoreceptors. Autosomal-recessive RP (arRP) in a consanguineous Pakistani family previously linked to chromosome 2p22.3-p24.1...
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