Rhodopsin mutations as the cause of retinal degeneration. Classification of degeneration phenotypes in the model system Drosophila melanogaster.

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Insight into the molecular basis of inherited photoreceptor cell degeneration has been rapidly evolving during the last decade. The Drosophila Rh1 rhodopsin gene was the first gene shown to cause retinal degeneration when mutated. Many more degeneration-causing mutations in genes encoding rhodopsin and other photoreceptor proteins have been isolated since then in both, Drosophila and humans. To date some 70...

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