Suzanne de Bruijn

92 Chapter 2 expression of the short transcript. Moreover, we showed that KIAA1549 resided in the connecting cilium of the mouse retina, thereby providing supporting evidence that KIAA1549 might act as an essential photoreceptor protein. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to thank Theo A. Peters, Sanne Broekman, Nisha Patel, Fozwan S. Alkuraya, Thanh-Minh T. Nguyen and Maartje van de Vorst for expert technical assistance. The study was financially supported by DCN Radboudumc grant (to F.P.M.C. and H.K.), as well as the Rotterdamse Stichting Blindenbelangen, the Stichting Blindenhulp, the Stichting tot Verbetering van het Lot der Blinden, and the Stichting Blinden-Penning (to F.P.M.C. and S.R.).