[Several mutations have been described in the RDH12 gene that disturb the activity of the encoded protein, suggesting that RDH12 loss of function disrupts the synthetic pathway of the visual chromophore 11-cis-retinal, therefore resulting in early and progressive retinal degeneration (RD).]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE