Toll-like Receptor 4 gene polymorphisms do not associate with normal tension glaucoma in a Korean population

Molecular Vision

Volumn 17, Issue , 2011, Pages 2343-2348

  Suh, Wool ^a   Kim, Sungmin ^a   Ki, Chang Seok ^a   Kee, Changwon ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4;

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; LOW TENSION GLAUCOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOUTH KOREA; TLR4 GENE;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELES; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LOW TENSION GLAUCOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; TOLL-LIKE RECEPTOR 4;

EID: 80053002354     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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