TY - BOOK AU - Reem Mahmoud Mohamed Mebed AU - Ahmed Mohamed Osman , AU - Mahmoud Ahmed Amer , AU - Nahed Solouma , TI - Assessment of gene mutations causing retinal degeneration / PY - 2010/// CY - Cairo : PB - Reem Mahmoud Mohamed Mebed , KW - Inheritance patterns KW - Retinal degeneration KW - Retinitis pigmentosa N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Science - Department of Zoology; Issued also as CD N2 - The inherited retinal degenerative diseases are a genetically and phenotypic-ally diverse group of inherited diseases that leads to visual impairment . Retinitis pigmentosa ( RP ) is a major cause of progressive retinal disease . It was found that the rhodopsin gene ( RHO ) represents one of the causative genes for autosomal dominant RP as well as rare cases of autosomal recessive RP ER -