Chromatic and luminance contrast sensitivities in asymptomatic carriers from a large Brazilian pedigree of 11778 leber hereditary optic neuropathy

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 4809-4814

  Ventura, Dora Fix ^a   Quiros, Peter ^b   Carelli, Valerio ^c   Salomão, Solange R ^d   Gualtieri, Mirella ^a   Oliveira, André G F ^a   Costa, Marcelo F ^a   Berezovsky, Adriana ^d   Sadun, Federico ^e   De Negri, Anna Maria ^f   Sadun, Alfredo A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e SAN GIOVANNI ADDOLORATA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^f SAN CAMILLO FORLANINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHROMATIC CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; LEBER HEREDITARY OPTIC NEUROPATHY; LUMINANCE; LUMINANCE CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; MALE; MICROANGIOPATHY; PEDIGREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; ADOLESCENT; COLOR VISION; CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ETHNOLOGY; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAZIL; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; FLICKER FUSION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; OPTIC ATROPHY, HEREDITARY, LEBER; PEDIGREE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 33644815792     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.05-0455     Document Type: Article

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