Two patterns of opacity in corneal dystrophy caused by the homozygous BIG-H3 R124H mutation

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 211-216

  Watanabe, Hitoshi ^a   Hashida, Yasunori ^a   Tsujikawa, Kaoru ^a   Tsujikawa, Motokazu ^a   Maeda, Naoyuki ^a   Inoue, Yoshitsugu ^a   Yamamoto, Shuji ^a   Tano, Yasuo ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA OPACITY; EYE INJURY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HEREDITY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROMA;

ADULT; CORNEA; CORNEAL DYSTROPHIES, HEREDITARY; CORNEAL OPACITY; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; POINT MUTATION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0034901080     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9394(01)00962-X     Document Type: Article

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