Molecular Genetics of Inherited Eye Disorders

ISBN-13: 9783718654932 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 552 str.

Wright;Wright

Opis

This text provides an account of molecular genetic advances in a wide spectrum of genetic eye disorders and forms the second volume on the "Modern Genetics" series. Sections on albinism, retinitis pigmentosa and collagen disorders deal with the problems of heterogeneity.

Spis treści

Preface to the Series

Preface

Contributors

Background to Molecular Genetic Principles and Techniques M. B. Gorin and A. F. Wright

INVERTEBRATES

Retinal Degeneration Mutants of Drosophila W. L Pak

VERTEBRATES CHOROID AND RETINA

Diagnosis in Inherited Retinal Disorders A. C. Bird and B. Jay

Human Albinism and Mouse Models R. A. King, I. J. Jackson and W. S. Oetting

Inherited Retinal Degenerations in the Mouse D. B. Farber and M. Danciger

Autosomal Dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa P. Humphries, P. Kenna and G. J. Farrar

The Molecular Genetic Approach to Macular Degeneration E. M. Stone and V. C. Sheffield

Molecular Genetics of Retinoblastoma J. K. Cowell

Color Vision Defects J. Neitz and M. Neitz

X-linked Retinitis Pigmentosa M. A. Aldred, M. Jay and A. F. Wright

Congenital Stationary Night Blindness: A Critical Review for Molecular Approaches Heon and M. A. Musarella

Choroideremia F. P. M. Cremers and H.-H. Ropers

Norrie Disease A. A. B. Bergen, W Berger, Z.-Y. Chen, P. J. Diergaarde, E. M. Bleek.er-Wagemak.ers, E. M. Battinelli, M. Warburg, H.-H. Ropers and I. Craig

X-linked Juvenile Rednoschisis A. de la Chapelle, T. Alitalo and H. Forsius

Clinical and Genetic Heterogeneity of Usher Syndrome W. J. Kimberling, M. Weston and C. Moller

VITREOUS/LENS

Marfan Syndrome P. Tsipouras and. M. W Kilpatrick

Lowe Oculocerebrorenal Syndrome I. Okabe and R. L. Nussbaum

Crystallin Genes and Cataract M. Cartier, L.-C. Tsui, S. P. Ball and N. H. Lubsen

ANTERIOR SEGMENT

Aniridia I. Hanson, T. Jordan and V. van Heyningen

METABOLIC

Mitochondrial DNA Mutations and the Eye M. D. Brown, M. T. Lott and D. C. Wallace

GLOSSARY

INDEX

O autorze

Alan F. Wright