Mutations in MERTK, the human orthologue of the RCS rat retinal dystrophy gene, cause retinitis pigmentosa

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Gal, A
Li, Y
Thompson, DA
Weir, J
Orth, U
Jacobson, SG
Apfelstedt-Sylla, E
Vollrath, D [1 ]
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[1] Stanford Univ, Sch Med, Dept Genet, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[2] Univ Michigan, Sch Med, Dept Ophthalmol & Visual Sci, Ann Arbor, MI USA
[3] Univ Michigan, Sch Med, Dept Biol Chem, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[4] Univ Krankenhaus Eppendorf, Inst Human Genet, Hamburg, Germany
[5] Univ Penn, Scheie Eye Inst, Dept Ophthalmol, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
[6] Univ Eye Clin, Dept Pathophysiol Vis & Neuroophthalmol, Tubingen, Germany
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10.1038/81555
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Q3 [遗传学];
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071007 ; 090102 ;
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[No abstract available]
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