Septuagenarian's phenotype leads to ascertainment of familial MYOC gene mutation

Journal of Glaucoma

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 98-103

  Lim, Pauline ^a   Lichter, Paul R ^b   Higashi, Misao ^b   Downs, Catherine A ^b   Richards, Julia E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Genotype; Myocilin; POAG; TIGR; Trabeculectomy

Indexed keywords

DNA; MYOCILIN; PHENYLALANINE; VALINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FILTERING OPERATION; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GONIOSCOPY; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; NEODYMIUM LASER; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC DISK ANOMALY; PERIMETRY; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLIT LAMP; TONOMETRY; TRABECULECTOMY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EXONS; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; FILTERING SURGERY; GENOTYPE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; IRIS; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0037386693     PISSN: 10570829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00061198-200304000-00002     Document Type: Article

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