Functional candidate genes in age-related macular degeneration: Significant association with VEGF, VLDLR, and LRP6

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 329-335

  Haines, Jonathan L ^a   Schnetz Boutaud, Nathalie ^a   Schmidt, Silke ^c   Scott, William K ^c   Agarwal, Anita ^b   Postel, Eric A ^c   Olson, Lana ^a   Kenealy, Shannon J ^a   Hauser, Michael ^c   Gilbert, John R ^c   Pericak Vance, Margaret A ^c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 MACROGLOBULIN; CREATINE KINASE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 6; MICROSOMAL GLUTATHIONE S TRANSFERASE 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN; VERY LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 1; LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 6; LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR-RELATED PROTEIN 6; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A, HUMAN; VASCULOTROPIN A;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; AGED; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; PEDIGREE; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AGED; ALPHA-MACROGLOBULINS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CREATINE KINASE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-1; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; PEDIGREE; PEPTIDYL-DIPEPTIDASE A; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, LDL; RISK FACTORS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 33644843900     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.05-0116     Document Type: Article

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