Heritability of ocular component dimensions in chickens: Genetic variants controlling susceptibility to experimentally induced myopia and pretreatment eye size are distinct

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 4012-4020

  Chen, Yen Po ^a,b   Prashar, Ankush ^a,c   Erichsen, Jonathan T ^a   To, Chi Ho ^d,e   Hocking, Paul M ^f   Guggenheim, Jeremy A ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^e SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR EYE CHAMBER DEPTH; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHICK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA CURVATURE; CORNEA THICKNESS; ECHOGRAPHY; EYE AXIS LENGTH; EYE DIAMETER; EYE WEIGHT; FEMALE; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; LENS SIZE; MALE; MONOCULAR VISION; MYOPIA; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; VITREOUS BODY; VITREOUS CHAMBER DEPTH; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CHICKEN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORNEA; EYE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SENSORY DEPRIVATION;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AXIAL LENGTH, EYE; CHICKENS; CORNEA; EYE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; MALE; MYOPIA; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; VISION, MONOCULAR; VITREOUS BODY;

EID: 80051615129     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-7045     Document Type: Article

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