The retinoic acid receptor alpha (RARA) gene is not associated with myopia, hypermetropia, and ocular biometric measures

Molecular Vision

Volumn 15, Issue , 2009, Pages 1390-1397

  Veerappan, S ^a,b   Schache M ^a,b   Pertile, K K ^a,b   Islam, F M A ^a   Chen, C Y ^a,b   Mitchell, P ^b,c   Dirani, M ^a,b   Baird, Paul N ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b VISION COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER DEPTH; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CORNEA CURVATURE; EYE AXIS LENGTH; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; OCULAR BIOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BIOMETRY; DEMOGRAPHY; EYE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; HYPEROPIA; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; REFRACTION, OCULAR;

EID: 67651098618     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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