Association of Genetic Variants with Primary Angle Closure Glaucoma in Two Different Populations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Awadalla, Mona S ^a   Thapa, Suman S ^b   Hewitt, Alex W ^c   Burdon, Kathryn P ^a   Craig, Jamie E ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b TILGANGA INSTITUTE OF OPHTHALMOLOGY   (Nepal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLOSED ANGLE GLAUCOMA; COL11A1 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEPAL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLEKHA7 GENE; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION SIZE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TXNRD2 GENE;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AUSTRALIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; GLAUCOMA, ANGLE-CLOSURE; HUMANS; NEPAL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84879523061     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067903     Document Type: Article

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