Genetic contributions to myopic refractive error: Insights from human studies and supporting evidence from animal models

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 114, Issue , 2013, Pages 141-149

  Hawthorne, Felicia A ^a   Young, Terri L ^a,b,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY EYE CENTER   (United States)

^c DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Gene identification; Genetics; Genome wide associations; Linkage; Mapping studies; Myopia

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE A2A RECEPTOR; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; COLLAGEN TYPE 1; COLLAGEN TYPE 2; FIBROMODULIN; GELATINASE A; HLA DQB1 ANTIGEN; INTERSTITIAL COLLAGENASE; LAMININ 1; MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR; MYOCILIN; SCATTER FACTOR; SOMATOMEDIN C; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN A; VITAMIN D RECEPTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN 644;

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; DISEASE COURSE; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; EXOME; FOLLOW UP; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MYOPIA; MYOPIC CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION;

GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATIONS; LINKAGE; MAPPING STUDIES; MYOPIA;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MYOPIA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84881315432     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: 10960007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2012.12.015     Document Type: Article

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