High-resolution analysis of DNA copy number alterations in patients with isolated sporadic keratoconus

Molecular Vision

Volumn 17, Issue , 2011, Pages 822-826

  Abu Amero, Khaled K ^a   Hellani, Ali M ^b   Al Mansouri, Sameer M ^a   Kalantan, Hatem ^a   Al Muammar, Abdulrahman M ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b SAAD SPECIALIST HOSPITAL   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; ISOLATED SPORADIC KERATOCONUS; KERATOCONUS; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAUDI ARABIA; VISUAL SYSTEM HOMEOBOX 1 GENE;

ADULT; ARABS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CORNEA; DNA; EPIGENOMICS; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; KERATOCONUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SAUDI ARABIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 79955623386     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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