Heritability of the iridotrabecular angle width measured by optical coherence tomography in chinese children: The guangzhou twin eye study

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1356-1361

  He, Mingguang ^a,b,e   Ge, Jian ^a   Wang, Dandan ^a   Zhang, Jian ^a   Hewitt, Alex W ^c   Hur, Yoon Mi ^d   Mackey, David A ^c   Foster, Paul J ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^e SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; ASIAN; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMETRY; CHINA; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; INHERITANCE; IRIS; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; REGISTER; TRABECULAR MESHWORK; TWINS;

ADOLESCENT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BIOMETRY; CHILD; CHINA; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; IRIS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; REGISTRIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TRABECULAR MESHWORK; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 45549092055     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-1397     Document Type: Article

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