Retinal MERTK gene

Gal A, Li Y, Thompson DA, Weir J, Orth U, et al. 2000. Mutations in MERTK, the human orthologue of the RCS rat retinal dystrophy gene, cause retinitis pigmentosa (in Proces.s Citation). Nat Genet 26 270-271. 

D Cruz PM, Yasumura D, Weir J, Matthes MT, Abderrahim H, et al. 2000. Mutation of the receptor tyrosine kinase gene Mertk in the retinal dystrophic RCS rat. Hum Mol Genet 9 645-651. 

Vollrath D, Feng W, Duncan J, et al. Correction of the retinal dystrophy phenotype of the RCS rat by viral gene transfer of Mertk. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2001 98 12,584-12,589. 

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