A clinical and molecular genetic study of Egyptian and Saudi Arabian patients with primary congenital glaucoma (PCG)

Journal of Glaucoma

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 104-111

  El Ashry, Mohamed F ^a,b   Abd El Aziz, Mai M ^a,b   Bhattacharya, Shomi S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TANTA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Candidate genes; Genetic diseases; Glaucoma; Mutation screening; Myocilin

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450 1B1;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL GLAUCOMA; CORNEA; EGYPT; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; GONIOSCOPY; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; SAUDI ARABIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SLIT LAMP;

AGE OF ONSET; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSANGUINITY; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EGYPT; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; GLYCOPROTEINS; GONIOSCOPY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INFANT; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 33846282732     PISSN: 10570829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ijg.0000212288.00917.e1     Document Type: Article

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