Gene-Environment Interactions and Aging Visual Function. A Classical Twin Study

Ophthalmology

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Hogg, Ruth E ^a   Dimitrov, Peter N ^a   Dirani, Mohamed ^a,b   Varsamidis, Mary ^a   Chamberlain, Matthew D ^a   Baird, Paul N ^a,b   Guymer, Robyn H ^a   Vingrys, Algis J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b VISION COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BOOTSTRAPPING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; DYNAMICS; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMINESCENCE; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; OPTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA ROD; STEADY STATE; TWINS; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL ADAPTATION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

EID: 58849103411     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2008.09.002     Document Type: Article

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