Major genetic effects in glaucoma: Commingling analysis of optic disc parameters in an older Australian population

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 5275-5280

  van Koolwijk, Leonieke M E ^a,b,c   Healey, Paul R ^d   Hitchings, Roger A ^a   Mitchell, Paul ^d   Sham, Pak C ^e,f   Mcguffin, Peter ^e   Viswanathan, Ananth C ^a,b  

^a MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ROTTERDAM EYE HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLAUCOMA; HERITABILITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTICAL CUP TO DISC RATIO; VERTICAL DISC DIAMETER; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETICS, POPULATION; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; TONOMETRY, OCULAR;

EID: 77955134589     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-3065     Document Type: Article

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