Recent Member Publication, "Two Genes, One Culprit - A Functional Candidate Validation of a SPATA7 deletion in dogs with day blindness/retinal degeneration
Recent Member Publication
Submitted by:
Gustavo Aguirre, VMD, PhD, PhD(hc)
Professor of Medical Genetics and Ophthalmology
University of Pennsylvania
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Two genes, one culprit - a functional candidate validation of a SPATA7 deletion in dogs with day blindness/retinal degeneration
Leonardo Murgiano 1,2*, Jessica K. Niggel1,2, Kei Takahashi 1, Valérie L. Dufour 1,
Catharina R. Grubaugh 3, Raghavi Sudharsan1, Jennifer C. Kwok 1, Doreen Becker 1,4,
Esha Banerjee 5, Wen-Mei Yu6, Tosso Leeb 7, Cheng-Kui Qu6, William A. Beltran 1,2,
Gustavo D. Aguirre 1,2*
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