Molecular genetic analysis of primary open-angle glaucoma, normal tension glaucoma, and developmental glaucoma for the VAV2 and VAV3 gene variants in Japanese subjects

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 432, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 509-512

  Shi, Dong ^a,b   Takano, Yoshimasa ^b   Nakazawa, Toru ^b   Mengkegale, MinGe ^b   Yokokura, Shunji ^b   Nishida, Kohji ^b,c   Fuse, Nobuo ^b,d  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

DG; Gene screening; NTG; POAG; VAV2; VAV3

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GLAUCOMA; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LEUKOCYTE; LOW TENSION GLAUCOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VAV2 GENE; VAV3 GENE;

AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; JAPAN; LOW TENSION GLAUCOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-VAV;

EID: 84874969458     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2013.02.003     Document Type: Article

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