Glaucoma phenotype in pedigrees with the myocilin Thr377Met mutation

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 121, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1172-1180

  Mackey, David A ^a,b,d   Healey, Danielle L ^a   Fingert, John H ^c   Coote, Michael A ^a   Wong, Tiffany L ^b   Wilkinson, Colleen H ^a,b   McCartney, Paul J ^b   Rait, Julian L ^a   De Graaf, A Pauline ^d   Stone, Edwin M ^c   Craig, Jamie E ^a,b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d ROYAL VICTORIAN EYE AND EAR HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHIONINE; MYOCILIN; THREONINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GLAUCOMA; GLAUCOMA SURGERY; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC DISK; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; GLYCOPROTEINS; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION, MISSENSE; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; OPTIC DISK; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0042563065     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.121.8.1172     Document Type: Article

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