Heritability of optic disc and cup easured by the heidelberg retinal tomography in chinese: The guangzhou twin eye study

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1350-1355

  He, Mingguang ^a,b   Liu, Bin ^a   Huang, Wenyong ^a   Zhang, Jian ^a   Yin, Qiuxia ^a   Zheng, Yingfeng ^a   Wang, Dandan ^a   Ge, Jian ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC MODEL; GLAUCOMA; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTIC DISK; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; ZYGOSITY; ASIAN; CHINA; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HISTOLOGY; INHERITANCE; METHODOLOGY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; REGISTER; TOMOGRAPHY; TWINS;

ADOLESCENT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; CHINA; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MALE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC DISK; REGISTRIES; TOMOGRAPHY; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 45549098142     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-1146     Document Type: Article

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