Complement factor B polymorphism 32W protects against agerelated macular degeneration

Molecular Vision

Volumn 17, Issue , 2011, Pages 983-988

  Hughes, Anne E ^a   Mullan, Gemma M ^a   Bradley, Declan T ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPLEMENT FACTOR B GENE; COMPLEMENT FACTOR H GENE; COMPLEMENT SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RISK; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HTRA SERINE PEPTIDASE 1 GENE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SMOKING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARGININE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION; COMPLEMENT FACTOR B; COMPLEMENT FACTOR H; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; GLUTAMINE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RETINA; RISK FACTORS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SMOKING; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 79955571934     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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