Distribution and heritability of iris thickness and pupil size in Chinese: The Guangzhou twin eye study

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1593-1597

  He, Mingguang ^a,b   Wang, Dandan ^a   Console, James W ^a   Zhang, Jian ^a   Zheng, Yingfeng ^a   Huang, Wenyong ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER DEPTH; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; IRIS; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; SEX DIFFERENCE; ASIAN; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; REGISTER; STATISTICAL MODEL; TWINS;

ADOLESCENT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; IRIS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PUPIL; REGISTRIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 64049099102     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-2735     Document Type: Article

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