Focusing In on the Complex Genetics of Myopia

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Wojciechowski, Robert ^a,b   Hysi, Pirro G ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LAMA2 GENE; LRRC4C GENE; MYOPIA; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REFRACTION ERROR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MYOPIA;

EID: 84876886011     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003442     Document Type: Article

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