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Defects in the rhodopsin kinase gene in the Oguchi form of stationary night blindness.
Nature genetics - 1 Feb 1997
Yamamoto S, Sippel K C, Berson E L, Dryja T P
Abstract excerpt
Oguchi disease is a recessively inherited form of stationary night blindness due to malfunction of the rod photoreceptor mechanism. Patients with this disease show a distinctive golden-brown colour of the fundus that occurs as the retina adapts to light, called the Mizuo phenomenon. Recently a defect in arrestin, a member of the rod phototransduction pathway, was found to cause this disease in some Japanese...
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