Age-related macular degeneration with discordant late stage phenotypes in monozygotic twins

Ophthalmic Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 237-244

  Keilhauer, Claudia N ^a   Fritsche, Lars G ^b   Weber, Bernhard H F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age related macular degeneration; genetic risk factors; monozygotic twins

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE IMAGING; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC ATROPHY; HUMAN; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASES IN TWINS; DNA PRIMERS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 80054869361     PISSN: 13816810     EISSN: 17445094     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13816810.2011.592177     Document Type: Article

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