Correction of the retinal dystrophy phenotype of the RCS rat by viral gene transfer of Mertk.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on October 09, 2001

Authors

D Vollrath1, W Feng, J L Duncan, D Yasumura, P M D'Cruz, A Chappelow, M T Matthes, M A Kay, M M LaVail

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305-5120, USA. vollrath@genome.stanford.edu

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