Complex trait genetics of refractive error

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 38-48

  Young, Terri L ^a   Metlapally, Ravikanth ^a   Shay, Amanda E ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ASTIGMATISM; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRAIT; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; KERATOCONUS; MICROPHTHALMIA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORBIDITY; MYOPIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; REVIEW; SCREENING; VISUAL ACUITY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; REFRACTIVE ERRORS;

EID: 33846061148     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 00039950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.125.1.38     Document Type: Review

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