Mapping of a gene causing brittle cornea syndrome in Tunisian Jews to 16q24

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 5283-5287

  Abu, Almogit ^a,b   Frydman, Moshe ^a,c   Marek, Dina ^a,b   Pras, Eran ^c,d   Stolovitch, Chaim ^c,e   Aviram Goldring, Ayala ^a,c   Rienstein, Shlomit ^a   Reznik Wolf, Haike ^a   Pras, Elon ^a,c  

^a GERTNER INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^e TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRITTLE CORNEA SYNDROME; CHROMOSOME 16Q; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORNEA DISEASE; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENE MAPPING; HAIR COLOR; HAPLOTYPE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; MARKER GENE; POLYMORPHIC LOCUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; CHROMOSOME 16; CHROMOSOME MAP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; ISRAEL; JEW; MALE; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYNDROME; TUNISIA;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 16; CORNEAL DISEASES; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; HAIR COLOR; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; ISRAEL; JEWS; MALE; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PEDIGREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYNDROME; TUNISIA;

EID: 34248201577     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.06-0206     Document Type: Article

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