Assessment of TGIF as a candidate gene for myopia

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 49-54

  Pertile, Kelly K ^a,b   Schäche, Maria ^a,b   Islam, F M Amirul ^a,b   Chen, Christine Y ^a,b   Dirani, Mohamed ^a,b   Mitchell, Paul ^b,c   Baird, Paul N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b VISION COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EYE REFRACTION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TGIF GENE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLASSIFICATION; CORNEA; EYE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TGIF1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOMETRY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORNEA; EYE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 39549090489     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-0896     Document Type: Article

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