Novel anterior segment phenotypes resulting from forkhead gene alterations: Evidence for cross-species conservation of function

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 2627-2633

  Lehmann, Ordan ^a,e   Tuft, Stephen ^b   Brice, Glen ^c   Smith, Richard ^d   Blixt, Åsa ^e   Bell, Rachel ^c   Johansson, Bengt ^e   Jordan, Tim ^a   Hitchings, Roger A ^b   Khaw, Peng T ^b   John, Simon W M ^d   Carlsson, Peter ^e   Bhattacharya, Shomi S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN FOXE3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXC1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXC2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA THICKNESS; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE DOSAGE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GLAUCOMA; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; ANTERIOR EYE SEGMENT; CORNEA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EYE ABNORMALITIES; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; IRIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0038485740     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.02-0609     Document Type: Article

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