A genetic epidemiologic study of candidate genes involved in the optic nerve head morphology

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1485-1491

  Gasten, Andrea C ^a   Ramdas, Wishal D ^a   Broer, Linda ^a   van Koolwijk, Leonieke M E ^a,b   Kamran Ikram, M ^a   de Jong, Paulus T V M ^a,c   Aulchenko, Yurii S ^a   Wolfs, Roger C ^a   Hofman, Albert ^a   Rivadeneira, Fernando ^a,d   Uitterlinden, Andre G ^a,d   Oostra, Ben A ^a   Lemij, Hans G ^b   Klaver, Caroline C W ^a   Jansonius, Nomdo M ^a,e   Vingerling, Johannes R ^a   van Duijn, Cornelia M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ROTTERDAM EYE HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPHRIN RECEPTOR A3; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; SINE OCULIS HOMEOBOX HOMOLOG 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ELP4 PROTEIN, HUMAN; EYE PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SALL1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; SIX1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 11P; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGY; OPTIC DISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; CHROMOSOME 11; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 11; COHORT STUDIES; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NETHERLANDS; OPTIC DISK; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84860551245     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-7384     Document Type: Article

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