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Molecular studies of phenotype variation in canine RPGR-XLPRA1.
Molecular vision - 1 Jan 2016
Appelbaum Tatyana, Becker Doreen, Santana Evelyn, Aguirre Gustavo D
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: Canine X-linked progressive retinal atrophy 1 (XLPRA1) caused by a mutation in retinitis pigmentosa (RP) GTPase regulator (RPGR) exon ORF15 showed significant variability in disease onset in a colony of dogs that all inherited the same mutant X chromosome. Defective protein trafficking has been detected in XLPRA1 before any discernible degeneration of the photoreceptors. We hypothesized that the severity...
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