Replication and meta-analysis of candidate loci identified variation at RAB3GAP1 associated with keratoconus

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Bae, Ha Ae ^a   Mills, Richard A D ^a   Lindsay, Richard G ^b   Phillips, Tony ^a   Coster, Douglas J ^a   Mitchell, Paul ^c   Wang, Jie Jin ^c,d   Craig, Jamie E ^a   Burdon, Kathryn P ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Richard Lindsay and Associates   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cornea; Genetics; Genome wide association study; Keratoconus; Meta analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMPL2 GENE; KCND3 GENE; KERATOCONUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; META ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAB3GAP1 GENE; REPLICATION STUDY; RETINOSCOPY; SEX RATIO; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; AUSTRALIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORNEA; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED;

RAB PROTEIN; RAB3GAP1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

CORNEA; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; KERATOCONUS; META-ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AUSTRALIA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; KERATOCONUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RAB3 GTP-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 84880938910     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.13-12377     Document Type: Article

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