Role of the Hepatocyte Growth Factor Gene in Refractive Error

Ophthalmology

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Veerappan, Sundar ^a,b   Pertile, Kelly K ^a,b   Islam, Amirul F M ^a,b   Schäche, Maria ^a,b   Chen, Christine Y ^a,b   Mitchell, Paul ^b,c   Dirani, Mohamed ^a,b   Baird, Paul N ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b VISION COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCATTER FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPERMETROPIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTION ERROR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 75149114490     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2009.07.002     Document Type: Article

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