Article
Clinical expression correlates with location of rhodopsin mutation in dominant retinitis pigmentosa.
Investigative ophthalmology & visual science - 1 Aug 1995
Sandberg M A, Weigel-DiFranco C, Dryja T P, Berson E L
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: To determine whether severity of retinitis pigmentosa caused by dominant rhodopsin mutations depends on the location altered by the mutation. METHODS: Data from 128 patients (age range, 7 to 73 years), each with 1 to 27 rhodopsin mutations, were analyzed. To approximate normal distributi...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Child
- Codon
- Dark Adaptation
- Electroretinography
- Humans
- Middle Aged
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Proline
- Retina
- Retinitis Pigmentosa
- Rhodopsin
- Structure-Activity Relationship
- Visual Acuity
