The association of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) gene with primary angle closure glaucoma in the Nepalese population

Molecular Vision

Volumn 17, Issue , 2011, Pages 2248-2254

  Awadalla, Mona S ^a   Thapa, Suman S ^b   Burdon, Kathryn P ^a   Hewitt, Alex W ^a,c   Craig, Jamie E ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b TILGANGA INSTITUTE OF OPHTHALMOLOGY   (Nepal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCATTER FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HGF GENE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPALESE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; GLAUCOMA, ANGLE-CLOSURE; HAPLOTYPES; HEPATOCYTE GROWTH FACTOR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPAL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 80053035776     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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