An epidemiological investigation of a Forkhead box protein E3 founder mutation underlying the high frequency of sclerocornea, aphakia, and microphthalmia in a Mexican village

Molecular Vision

Volumn 19, Issue , 2013, Pages 1866-1870

  Pantoja Melendez, Carlos ^a,b   Ali, Manir ^c   Zenteno, Juan C ^a,b  

^a Institute of Ophthalmology   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXE3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; APHAKIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORNEA DISEASE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FOXE3 GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC MARKER; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MEXICO; MICROPHTHALMIA; MORBIDITY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROCORNEA; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

APHAKIA; CORNEA; CORNEAL DISEASES; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENETIC MARKERS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MEXICO; MICROPHTHALMOS; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84883340104     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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