How significant is a family history of glaucoma? Experience from the glaucoma inheritance study in Tasmania

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 793-799

  Green, Catherine M ^a,b   Kearns, Lisa S ^b   Wu, Johnny ^a   Barbour, Julie M ^a   Wilkinson, Robyn M ^a   Ring, Maree A ^a   Craig, Jamie E ^a,c   Wong, Tiffany L ^a   Hewitt, Alex W ^a,c   Mackey, David A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Genetics; Primary open angle glaucoma; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SCREENING; GONIOSCOPY; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC DISK; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; PRIMARY GLAUCOMA; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FAMILY; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; TASMANIA;

EID: 37549059918     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2007.01612.x     Document Type: Article

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