Association between primary open-angle glaucoma and WDR36 DNA sequence variants in Japanese

Molecular Vision

Volumn 13, Issue , 2007, Pages 1912-1919

  Miyazawa, Akiko ^a   Fuse, Nobuo ^a   Mengkegale, Ming Ge ^a   Ryu, Morin ^a   Seimiya, Motohiko ^a   Wada, Yuko ^a   Nishida, Kohji ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; CYTOSINE; GENOMIC DNA; GUANINE; THYMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WINGED DOMAIN REPEAT PROTEIN 36;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN VARIANT; RAT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HAPLOTYPES; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VARIATION (GENETICS); VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 35448974197     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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