Mutations within the Rhodopsin Gene in Patients with Autosomal Dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa
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- 8 November 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 323 (19), 1302-1307
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199011083231903
Abstract
Night blindness is an early symptom of retinitis pigmentosa. The rod photoreceptors are responsible for night vision and use rhodopsin as the photosensitive pigment.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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