A case-control comparison of the clinical characteristics of glaucoma and ocular hypertensive patients with and without the myocilin Gln368Stop mutation

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 134, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 884-890

  Graul, Thomas A ^a   Kwon, Young H ^a   Zimmerman, M Bridget ^b   Kim, Chang Sik ^a   Sheffield, Val C ^a   Stone, Edwin M ^a   Alward, Wallace L M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMINE; MYOCILIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARGON LASER; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FILTERING OPERATION; GENDER; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MUTATION; ONSET AGE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIME; TRABECULOPLASTY; UNITED STATES; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CODON, TERMINATOR; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0036894675     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9394(02)01754-3     Document Type: Article

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