SPATA7-Associated Juvenile Retinitis Pigmentosa in Two Brothers from a Consanguineous Iraqi Family in Switzerland

Faady Yahya; Pascal Escher; Carlo Rivolta; Hendrik Pn. Scholl; Francoise Roulez

doi:10.1055/a-2009-0498

Klinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde, Table of Contents

Klin Monbl Augenheilkd 2023; 240(04): 544-548
DOI: 10.1055/a-2009-0498

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SPATA7-Associated Juvenile Retinitis Pigmentosa in Two Brothers from a Consanguineous Iraqi Family in Switzerland

SPATA7-assoziierte juvenile Retinitis pigmentosa in 2 Brüdern aus einer konsanguinen irakischen Familie in der Schweiz

Authors

Faady Yahya

¹Department of Ophthalmology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

²University Hospital Basel Eye Clinic, Basel, Switzerland
Pascal Escher

³Department of Ophthalmology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

⁴Department of BioMedical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Carlo Rivolta

¹Department of Ophthalmology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

⁵Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel, Basel, Switzerland

⁶Department of Genetics and Genome Biology, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Hendrik Pn. Scholl

¹Department of Ophthalmology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

²University Hospital Basel Eye Clinic, Basel, Switzerland

⁵Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Francoise Roulez

¹Department of Ophthalmology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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