An association between the calpastatin (CAST) gene and keratoconus

Cornea

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 696-701

  Li, Xiaohui ^a   Bykhovskaya, Yelena ^a   Tang, Yongming G ^a   Picornell, Yoana ^a   Haritunians, Talin ^a   Aldave, Anthony J ^b   Szczotka Flynn, Loretta ^c,d   Iyengar, Sudha K ^b   Rotter, Jerome I ^a   Taylor, Kent D ^a   Rabinowitz, Yaron S ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences ^*  (United States)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

calpains; calpastatin; common variation; genetic association; keratoconus; linkage analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CALPASTATIN;

ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; KERATOCONUS; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMORPHIC LOCUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; KERATOCONUS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIGREE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84876283643     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: 15364798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ICO.0b013e3182821c1c     Document Type: Article

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