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RDS Functional Domains and Dysfunction in Disease.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology - 1 Jan 2016
Stuck Michael W, Conley Shannon M, Naash Muna I
Abstract excerpt
The photoreceptor specific tetraspanin protein retina degeneration slow (RDS) is a critical component of the machinery necessary for the formation of rod and cone outer segments. Over 80 individual pathogenic mutations in RDS have been identified in human patients that lead to a wide variety of retinal degenerative diseases including retinitis pigmentosa, cone-rod dystrophy, and various forms of macular...
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