Role of genetic factors in lower- and higher-order aberrations - The genes in myopia twin study

Ophthalmic Research

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 142-147

  Dirani, M ^a   Chamberlain, M ^a   Couper, T A ^a   Guymer, R H ^a   Baird, P N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b VISION COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aberrations; Heritability; Intrapair correlation; Twin

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CORRELATION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFRACTION ERROR; ETHNOLOGY; EYE REFRACTION; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; REGISTER; TWINS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASES IN TWINS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFRACTION, OCULAR; REGISTRIES; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 62849095842     PISSN: 00303747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000209667     Document Type: Article

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