Investigation of VSX1 sequence variants in South Indian patients with sporadic cases of keratoconus

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Verma, Anshuman ^a   Das, Manoranjan ^a   Srinivasan, Muthiah ^a   Prajna, Namperumalsamy V ^a   Sundaresan, Periasamy ^a  

^a ARAVIND EYE HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

KTCN Keratoconus; SNP Single nucleotide polymorphism; VSX1 Visual system homeobox 1

Indexed keywords

EYE PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; VSX1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GENETICS; HUMAN; INDIA; KERATOCONUS; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EYE PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INDIA; KERATOCONUS; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84875072920     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-6-103     Document Type: Article

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