Investigations on the association between normal tension glaucoma and single nucleotide polymorphisms of the endothelin-1 and endothelin receptor genes

Molecular Vision

Volumn 12, Issue , 2006, Pages 1016-1021

  Kim, Seok Hwan ^a   Kim, Ji Yeon ^a   Kim, Dong Myung ^a   Ko, Hyun Su ^a   Kim, Sung Yeun ^a   Yoo, Taiwoo ^a   Hwang, Seung Sik ^b   Park, Sung Sup ^a  

^a Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; DNA; ENDOTHELIN 1; ENDOTHELIN A RECEPTOR; ENDOTHELIN B RECEPTOR; GUANINE; TYROSINE;

ADULT; AGE; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA ISOLATION; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; KOREA; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PERIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ENDOTHELIN-1; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, ENDOTHELIN;

EID: 33748156115     PISSN: 10900535     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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