Heritability of macular thickness determined by optical coherence tomography

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 336-340

  Chamberlain, Matthew D ^a,c   Guymer, Robyn H ^a   Dirani, Mohamed ^a,b   Hopper, John L ^a   Baird, Paul N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c CENTRE FOR EYE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; EYE AXIS LENGTH; FEMALE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; ZYGOSITY; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; EYE FUNDUS; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; INHERITANCE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PHOTOGRAPHY; TWINS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MACULA LUTEA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 33644837775     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.05-0599     Document Type: Article

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