Lack of association between p53 gene polymorphisms and primary open angle glaucoma in the Japanese population

Molecular Vision

Volumn 15, Issue , 2009, Pages 1045-1049

  Mabuchi, Fumihiko ^a   Sakurada, Yoichi ^a   Kashiwagi, Kenji ^a   Yamagata, Zentaro ^a   Iijima, Hiroyuki ^a   Tsukahara, Shigeo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE; PROTEIN P53;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GLAUCOMA; HIGH TENSION GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTRON; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING;

ADULT; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, P53; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 66249100932     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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