Heritability of Intraocular Pressure in Older Female Twins

Ophthalmology

Volumn 114, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2227-2231

  Pärssinen, Olavi ^a   Era, Pertti ^b   Tolvanen, Asko ^c   Kaprio, Jaakko ^d,e   Koskenvuo, Markku ^d   Rantanen, Taina ^c  

^a JYVÄSKYLÄ CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b Brain Research and Rehabilitation Center Neuron   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^e NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC MODEL; GLAUCOMA; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NERVE CELL; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TONOMETER; TWINS;

AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 36549003142     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2007.03.011     Document Type: Article

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