A decade in search of myopia genes

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 359-372

  Jacobi, Felix K ^a   Pusch, Carsten M ^b  

^a Ambulatory Eye Surgery Center   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Candidate genes; Genetics; Linkage; Myopia; Review

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME MAP; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MYOPIA; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; X CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; GENES, X-LINKED; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MYOPIA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 77951222727     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/3625     Document Type: Article

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