Low prevalence of myocilin mutations in an African American population with primary open-angle glaucoma

Molecular Vision

Volumn 18, Issue , 2012, Pages 2241-2246

  Liu, Wenjing ^a   Liu, Yutao ^a,b   Challa, Pratap ^b   Herndon, Leon W ^b   Wiggs, Janey L ^c   Girkin, Christopher A ^d   Rand Allingham, R ^b   Hauser, Michael A ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY EYE CENTER   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ASPARAGINE; GLUTAMINE; LEUCINE; METHIONINE; MYOCILIN; SERINE; THREONINE; TYROSINE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; EXON; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; MUTATOR GENE; MYOCILIN GENE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION RATE; OPEN READING FRAMES; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865823321     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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