Reply to Liu et al.: Differential effects of chromosome 2p16.3 variants on glaucoma in African derived populations

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 15, 2010, Pages

  Zhang, Kang ^a   Jiao, Xiaodong ^b   Chen, Yuhong ^a   Yang, Zhenglin ^a   Hennis, Anselm ^c,d   Nemesure, Barbara ^e   Hoh, Josephine ^f   Hejtmancik, J Fielding ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Ministry of Health Barbados   (Barbados)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^e STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALLELE; CHROMOSOME 2P; CHROMOSOME 2P16.3; CHROMOSOME VARIANT; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LETTER; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 77951078455     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1000204107     Document Type: Letter

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