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Nature Medicine  4, 18 - 19 (1998)
doi:10.1038/nm0198-018

From CRX to CRD

Marc Abitbol & Jean-Louis Dufier

Faculté dé Medecine NECKER, CERTO, 75015 Paris, France email: abitbol@ceylan.necker.fr

Mutations in a homeodomain transcription factor that controls photoreceptor differentiation cause Cone-Rod Dystrophy, an inherited disease of retinal degeneration that results in blindness.

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