Methylenetetrahydrofolatereductase (MTHFR) 677C>T polymorphism and open angle glaucoma

Molecular Vision

Volumn 12, Issue , 2006, Pages 356-359

  Mossbock, Georg ^a   Weger, Martin ^a   Faschinger, Christoph ^a   Steinbrugger, Iris ^a   Temmel, Werner ^a   Schmut, Otto ^a   Renner, Wilfried ^a   Hufnagel, Clemens ^b   Stanger, Olaf ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5,10 METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (FADH2); CYSTEINE; FOLIC ACID; GENOMIC DNA; HOMOCYSTEINE; TYROSINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA EXTRACTION; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RISK; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOEXFOLIATION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CYTOSINE; EXFOLIATION SYNDROME; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; MALE; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); ODDS RATIO; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; THYMINE;

EID: 33645764709     PISSN: 10900535     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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