Myocilin variations and familial glaucoma in Taxiarchis, a small Greek village

Molecular Vision

Volumn 14, Issue , 2008, Pages 774-781

  Wirtz, Mary K ^a   Konstas, Anastasios G P ^b   Samples, John R ^a   Kaltsos, Kostantinos ^b   Economou, Athanasios ^b   Dimopoulos, Antonios ^b   Georgiadou, Irene ^b   Petersen, Michael B ^c  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AHEPA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c Institute of Child Health   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; LYSINE; METHIONINE; MYOCILIN; THREONINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA THICKNESS; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GREECE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOEXFOLIATION; RANDOM SAMPLE; SCHOOL CHILD; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GLAUCOMA; GLYCOPROTEINS; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 43149120490     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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