Article
A point mutation of the rhodopsin gene in one form of retinitis pigmentosa.
Nature - 25 Jan 1990
Dryja T P, McGee T L, Reichel E, Hahn L B, Cowley G S, Yandell D W, Sandberg M A, Berson E L
Abstract excerpt
The gene for autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa in a large pedigree of Irish origin has recently been found to be linked to an anonymous polymorphic sequence, D3S47 (C17), from the long arm of chromosome 3. As the gene coding for rhodopsin is also assigned to the long arm of chromosome 3 and is expressed in rod photoreceptors that are affected early in this blinding disease, we searched for a mutation of the...
Topics
- Adult
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Base Sequence
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 3
- Codon
- Electroretinography
- Eye Proteins
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Pedigree
