Clinical features associated with mutations in the chromosome 1 open- angle glaucoma gene (GLC1A)

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 338, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 1022-1027

  Alward, Wallace L M ^a   Fingert, John H ^a   Coote, Michael A ^c   Johnson, A Tim ^a   Lerner, S Fabian ^d   Junqua, Denise ^d   Durcan, Fiona J ^e   Mccartney, Paul J ^f   Mackey, David A ^c,f,g   Sheffield, Val C ^a,b   Stone, Edwin M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA; GENE PRODUCT; MYOCILIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 1; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 1; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; LOD SCORE; MALE; MUTATION;

EID: 17944385621     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199804093381503     Document Type: Article

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