Ancestral LOXL1 variants are associated with pseudoexfoliation in Caucasian Australians but with markedly lower penetrance than in Nordic people

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 710-716

  Hewitt, Alex W ^a,b   Sharma, Shiwani ^a   Burdon, Kathryn P ^a   Wang, Jie Jin ^c   Baird, Paul N ^b   Dimasi, David P ^a   Mackey, David A ^b,d   Mitchell, Paul ^c   Craig, Jamie E ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYSYL OXIDASE LIKE 1 PROTEIN; PROTEIN LYSINE 6 OXIDASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PSEUDOEXFOLIATION; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMINO ACID OXIDOREDUCTASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AUSTRALIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EXFOLIATION SYNDROME; FEMALE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PENETRANCE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RISK FACTORS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 39749149076     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddm342     Document Type: Article

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