Discordance for keratoconus in two pairs of monozygotic twins

Cornea

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 444-451

  McMahon, Timothy T ^a,d   Shin, Julie A ^b   Newlin, Anna ^a   Edrington, Timothy B ^b   Sugar, Joel ^a   Zadnik, Karla ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Discordant; Keratoconus; Monozygotic; Twins

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DNA PROBE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KERATOCONUS; KERATOMETRY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY; STROMA CELL; TWIN DISCORDANCE; ZYGOSITY;

EID: 0033051834     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003226-199907000-00010     Document Type: Article

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