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01-11-2013 | Meeting abstract
OR11-002 - Mutations in MVK cause non-syndromic RP
Authors:
AM Siemiatkowska, M Stoffels, K Neveling, A Simon, PM van Hagen, AI den Hollander, FP Cremers, LI van den Born, RW Collin
Published in:
Pediatric Rheumatology
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Special Issue 1/2013
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Excerpt
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a genetically heterogeneous retinal disease. Typically beginning with night blindness, RP is characterized by rod cell degeneration followed by cone cell death, which may ultimately lead to complete blindness. Despite extensive knowledge about genes involved in RP pathogenesis, in several cases the genetic cause remains elusive. …