The Heritability of Corneal Hysteresis and Ocular Pulse Amplitude. A Twin Study

Ophthalmology

Volumn 115, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1545-1549

  Carbonaro, Francis ^a   Andrew, Toby ^b   Mackey, David A ^c   Spector, Tim D ^a   Hammond, Chris J ^a,d  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d Bromley Hospitals NHS Trust   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYSTERESIS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CORNEA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELASTIC TISSUE; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGISTRIES; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 50249182271     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2008.02.011     Document Type: Article

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