Genetic and environmental factors in age-related nuclear cataracts in monozygotic and dizygotic twins

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 342, Issue 24, 2000, Pages 1786-1790

  Hammond, Christopher J ^a   Snieder, Harold ^b   Spector, Tim D ^b   Gilbert, Clare E ^b  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CATARACT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; LENS NUCLEUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CATARACT; DISEASES IN TWINS; ENVIRONMENT; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENS NUCLEUS, CRYSTALLINE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, GENETIC; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0034659685     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM200006153422404     Document Type: Article

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