Linkage of autosomal recessive primary congenital glaucoma to the GLC3A locus in Roms (Gypsies) from Slovakia

Human Heredity

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 30-33

  Plášilová, Martina ^a   Feráková, Eva ^a   Kádasi, Ludovít ^b   Poláková, Helena ^b   Gerinec, Anton ^c   Ott, Jürg ^d   Ferák, Vladimír ^a  

^a Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRATISLAVA   (Slovakia)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic linkage; Gypsies; Primary congenital glaucoma

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450 ISOENZYME;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; CHROMOSOME 2P; CONGENITAL GLAUCOMA; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GIPSY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARKER GENE; SLOVAKIA;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 2; FEMALE; GENES, RECESSIVE; GLAUCOMA; GYPSIES; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; PEDIGREE; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 0031973099     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000022778     Document Type: Article

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