Extremely varied phenotypes in granular corneal dystrophy type 2 heterozygotes

Molecular Vision

Volumn 18, Issue , 2012, Pages 1755-1762

  Han, Kyung Eun ^a   Choi, Seung il ^a   Chung, Woo Suk ^b   Jung, Se Hwan ^a   Katsanis, Nicholas ^c   Kim, Tae im ^a   Kim, Eung Kweon ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Siloan Eye Hospital   (South Korea)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA DYSTROPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; FOLLOW UP; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GRANULAR CORNEAL DYSTROPHY TYPE 2; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MALE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SLIT LAMP; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA INDUCED GENE; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELLS, CULTURED; CORNEA; CORNEAL DYSTROPHIES, HEREDITARY; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 84864312612     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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