Heritability of central corneal thickness in Chinese: The Guangzhou twin eye study

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 4303-4307

  Zheng, Yingfeng ^a   Ge, Jian ^a   Huang, Guofu ^a   Zhang, Jian ^a   Liu, Bin ^a   Hur, Yoon Mi ^b   He, Mingguang ^a,c  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINESE; CORNEA THICKNESS; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX LIMITATION; VARIANCE; ZYGOSITY; ASIAN; CHINA; CORNEA; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; TWINS;

ADOLESCENT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; CHINA; CORNEA; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; REGISTRIES; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 53449102271     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-1934     Document Type: Article

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