Heritability of central corneal thickness in nuclear families

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 4087-4090

  Landers, John A ^a   Hewitt, Alex W ^b   Dimasi, David P ^b   Charlesworth, Jac C ^c   Straga, Tania ^a   Mills, Richard A D ^a   Savarirayan, Ravi ^d   Mackey, David A ^d   Burdon, Kathryn P ^b   Craig, Jamie E ^a,b  

^a FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research   (Australia)

^d ROYAL VICTORIAN EYE AND EAR HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA THICKNESS; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PARENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; CAUCASIAN; CORNEA; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; PEDIGREE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

CORNEA; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PEDIGREE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 70349255719     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-3271     Document Type: Article

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