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Strategies for identification of mutations causing hereditary retinal diseases in dogs: evaluation of opsin as a candidate gene.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Ray K, Wang W, Czarnecki J, Zhang Q, Acland G M, Aguirre G D
Abstract excerpt
Progressive retinal atrophy (PRA), like retinitis pigmentosa (RP) in man, represents a clinical classification grouping together a variety of hereditary diseases of the visual cells which have broadly similar clinical characteristics. At least six distinct autosomal recessive and one X-linked retinal disease locus have been identified. As one of the strategies to look for the gene defect causing the different...
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