Axial length: An underestimated endophenotype of myopia

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 252-253

  Meng, Weihua ^a   Butterworth, Jacqueline ^a   Malecaze, Francois ^a   Calvas, Patrick ^a  

^a CHU PURPAN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER DEPTH; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL PARAMETERS; CHROMOSOME 5Q; ENDOPHENOTYPE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EYE AXIS LENGTH; EYE DISEASE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MYOPIA; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTERIOR CHAMBER; BIOMETRY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYOPIA; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 72449162510     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.09.025     Document Type: Article

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