The apolipoprotein ε4 gene is associated with elevated risk of normal tension glaucoma

Molecular Vision

Volumn 8, Issue , 2002, Pages 389-393

  Vickers, James C ^a   Craig, Jamie E ^b   Stankovich, Jim ^c   McCormack, Graeme H ^a   West, Adrian K ^a   Dickinson, Joanne L ^c   McCartney, Paul J ^a   Coote, Michael A ^d   Healey, Danielle L ^d   Mackey, David A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d ROYAL VICTORIAN EYE AND EAR HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; APOLIPOPROTEIN E; DNA;

AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RISK; GENOTYPE; GLAUCOMA; GONIOSCOPY; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE ABNORMALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; AUSTRALIA; GENETICS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLELES; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; AUSTRALIA; DNA; GENOTYPE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0037078222     PISSN: 10900535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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