Nuclear cataract shows significant familial aggregation in an older population after adjustment for possible shared environmental factors

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 2182-2186

  Congdon, Nathan ^a,b   Broman, Karl W ^a   Lai, Hong ^a   Munoz, Beatriz ^a   Bowie, Heidi ^a   Gilber, Donna ^a   Wojciechowski, Robert ^a   Alston, Christine ^a   West, Sheila K ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Wilmer 120 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; LENS NUCLEUS; LENS NUCLEUS CATARACT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SIBLING; SLIT LAMP; UNITED STATES; WILMER CATARACT GRADING SYSTEM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATARACT; ENVIRONMENT; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LENS NUCLEUS, CRYSTALLINE; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SIBLINGS;

EID: 3142653071     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.03-1163     Document Type: Article

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