Genome-wide Scan of African-American and White Families for Linkage to Myopia

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Ciner, Elise ^a   Ibay, Grace ^b   Wojciechowski, Robert ^b   Dana, Debra ^c   Holmes, Taura N ^b   Bailey Wilson, Joan E ^b   Stambolian, Dwight ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHROMOSOME 11; FAMILY STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RACE DIFFERENCE; REFRACTION ERROR;

EID: 59749103954     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2008.09.004     Document Type: Article

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