Variation in the lysyl oxidase (LOX) gene is associated with keratoconus in family-based and case-control studies

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 4152-4157

  Bykhovskaya, Yelena ^a   Li, Xiaohui ^a   Epifantseva, Irina ^a   Haritunians, Talin ^a   Siscovick, David ^b   Aldave, Anthony ^c   Szczotka Flynn, Loretta ^d   Iyengar, Sudha K ^d   Taylor, Kent D ^a   Rotter, Jerome I ^a   Rabinowitz, Yaron S ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KERATOCONUS; LYSYL OXIDASE GENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CORNEA; ENZYMOLOGY; FAMILY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; KERATOMETRY; META ANALYSIS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW;

DNA; PROTEIN LYSINE 6 OXIDASE;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORNEA; CORNEAL TOPOGRAPHY; DNA; FAMILY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; KERATOCONUS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN-LYSINE 6-OXIDASE;

EID: 84866285805     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-9268     Document Type: Article

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