Abstract
PROM1 encodes prominin-1, a membrane protein involved in disk morphogenesis. Mutations in PROM1 cause autosomal dominant macular dystrophy, autosomal recessive or dominant retinitis pigmentosa (RP), or recessive cone-rod dystrophy [1–3].
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Zahid, S. et al. (2018). PROM1 . In: Retinal Dystrophy Gene Atlas. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10867-4_60
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