Whole-Exome Sequencing Identifies Novel Variants that Co-segregates with Autosomal Recessive Retinal Degeneration in a Pakistani Pedigree

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Dr. Ayyagari, the principal investigator and corresponding author had full access to all the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. Support: This work was supported by NEI-NIH grants EY014375, NIH-R01EY021237, NIH-R01EY013198, Foundation Fighting Blindness, and Research to Prevent Blindness.

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Biswas, P. et al. (2018). Whole-Exome Sequencing Identifies Novel Variants that Co-segregates with Autosomal Recessive Retinal Degeneration in a Pakistani Pedigree. In: Ash, J., Anderson, R., LaVail, M., Bowes Rickman, C., Hollyfield, J., Grimm, C. (eds) Retinal Degenerative Diseases. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 1074. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75402-4_27

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