Association of complement factor H polymorphisms with exudative age-related macular degeneration

Molecular Vision

Volumn 12, Issue , 2006, Pages 1536-1542

  Chen, Li Jia ^a,b   Liu, David T L ^a   Tam, Pancy O S ^a   Chan, Wai Man ^a   Liu, Ke ^a,b   Chong, Kelvin K L ^a   Lam, Dennis S C ^a   Pang, Chi Pui ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SHANTOU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT FACTOR H; CYSTEINE; HISTIDINE; THREONINE; TYROSINE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAUCASIAN; CHINESE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; JAPAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPLEMENT FACTOR H; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; HAPLOTYPES; HISTIDINE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; LOGISTIC MODELS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TYROSINE;

EID: 33845953595     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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