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Systemic splicing factor deficiency causes tissue-specific defects: a zebrafish model for retinitis pigmentosa.
Human molecular genetics - 15 Jan 2011
Linder Bastian, Dill Holger, Hirmer Anja, Brocher Jan, Lee Gek Ping, Mathavan Sinnakaruppan, Bolz Hanno Jörn, Winkler Christoph, Laggerbauer Bernhard, Fischer Utz
Abstract excerpt
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a common hereditary eye disease that causes blindness due to a progressive loss of photoreceptors in the retina. RP can be elicited by mutations that affect the tri-snRNP subunit of the pre-mRNA splicing machinery, but how defects in this essential macromolecular complex transform into a photoreceptor-specific phenotype is unknown. We have modeled the disease in zebrafish by silencing...
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