African Descent and Glaucoma Evaluation Study (ADAGES): II. Ancestry differences in optic disc, retinal nerve fiber layer, and macular structure in healthy subjects

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 541-550

  Girkin, Christopher A ^a,b   Sample, Pamela A ^c   Liebmann, Jeffrey M ^d   Jain, Sonia ^c   Bowd, Christopher ^c   Becerra, Lida M ^c   Medeiros, Felipe A ^c   Racette, Lyne ^c   Dirkes, Keri A ^c   Weinreb, Robert N ^c   Zangwill, Linda M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NEW YORK EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; EUROPE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC DISK; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; RETINA NERVE CELL; STEREOSCOPIC VISION;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; OCULAR HYPERTENSION; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PERIMETRY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 77952230482     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2010.49     Document Type: Article

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