Genetic variants associated with optic nerve vertical cup-to-disc ratio are risk factors for primary open angle glaucoma in a US Caucasian population

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1788-1792

  Fan, Bao Jian ^a   Wang, Dan Yi ^a   Pasquale, Louis R ^a   Haines, Jonathan L ^b   Wiggs, Janey L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; ATOH7 GENE; CAUCASIAN; CDKN2B GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC DISK CUP; OPTIC NERVE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SIX1 GENE; SIX6 GENE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 14; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 9; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P15; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RISK FACTORS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955930667     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-6339     Document Type: Article

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