The heritability and sibling risk of angle closure in Asians

Ophthalmology

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 480-485

  Amerasinghe, Nishani ^a,b   Zhang, Jian ^c   Thalamuthu, Anbupalam ^d   He, Mingguang ^c   Vithana, Eranga N ^a,e   Viswanathan, Ananth ^f   Wong, Tien Y ^a,e   Foster, Paul J ^f   Aung, Tin ^a,e  

^a SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^b SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GONIOSCOPY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTIC DISK; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENCE RISK; RELATIVE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIBLING; SLIT LAMP; TRABECULAR MESHWORK; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GLAUCOMA, ANGLE-CLOSURE; GONIOSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SIBLINGS; SINGAPORE; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 79952281024     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2010.06.043     Document Type: Article

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