Posterior polymorphous corneal dystrophy in Czech families maps to chromosome 20 and excludes the VSX1 gene

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 4480-4484

  Gwilliam, Rhian ^a   Liskova, Petra ^b,c   Filipec, Martin ^c   Kmoch, Stanislav ^c   Jirsova, Katerina ^c   Huckle, Elizabeth J ^a   Stables, Catherine L ^a   Bhattacharya, Shomi S ^b   Hardcastle, Alison J ^b   Deloukas, Panos ^a   Ebenezer, Neil D ^b  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Charles University in Prague and General University Hospital in Prague   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 20; CHROMOSOME MAP; CONGENITAL HEREDITARY ENDOTHELIAL DYSTROPHY; CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CZECH REPUBLIC; FEMALE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; POSTERIOR POLYMORPHOUS CORNEAL DYSTROPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VSX1 GENE; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CORNEA ENDOTHELIUM; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; PATHOLOGY; PEDIGREE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

EYE PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; VSX1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 20; CORNEAL DYSTROPHIES, HEREDITARY; CZECH REPUBLIC; DESCEMET MEMBRANE; ENDOTHELIUM, CORNEAL; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; LOD SCORE; MALE; PEDIGREE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 33644805177     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.05-0269     Document Type: Article

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