The genotype-phenotype controversy in ophthalmology. Implications of heterogeneity on diagnosis, embryology and molecular function

Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 2-5

  Warburg, Mette ^a  

^a Division of Paediatric Ophthalmology and Handicaps   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Classification of diseases; Embryological genes; Heterogeneity; Metabolites of the eye; Splitters and lumpers

Indexed keywords

STRUCTURAL PROTEIN;

CLASSIFICATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMBRYOLOGY; EYE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0031934943     PISSN: 13953907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0420.1998.760102.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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