Mitochondrial genetic background in Ghanaian patients with primary open-angle glaucoma

Molecular Vision

Volumn 18, Issue , 2012, Pages 1955-1959

  Abu Amero, Khaled K ^a,g   Hauser, Michael A ^b   Mohamed, Gamal ^c   Liu, Yutao ^b   Gibson, Jason ^b   Gonzalez, Ana M ^d   Akafo, Stephen ^e   Rand Allingham, R ^b,f  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^f DUKE UNIVERSITY EYE CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC CODE; GHANA; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GHANA; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOCHONDRIA; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 84865831099     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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