Genetic heritability of a shallow anterior chamber in Chinese families with primary angle closure glaucoma

Ophthalmic Genetics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 171-176

  Tu, Yun Shu ^a   Yin, Zheng Qin ^a   Pen, Hui Min ^b   Yuan, Chang Ming ^c  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Chongqing Emergency Medical Center   (China)

Author keywords

Familial analysis; Multifactorial inheritance; Probands; Relative risk; Segregation analysis; Sex influenced

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER DEPTH; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CHINESE; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; FEMALE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC RISK; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATING TYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEGREGATION ANALYSIS; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; ASIAN; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GONIOSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; PATHOLOGY; PEDIGREE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTERIOR CHAMBER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GLAUCOMA, ANGLE-CLOSURE; GONIOSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; PEDIGREE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 56149104318     PISSN: 13816810     EISSN: 17445094     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13816810802324532     Document Type: Article

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