Mitochondrial sequence changes in Keratoconus patients

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1706-1710

  Abu Amero, Khaled K ^a   Azad, Taif Anwar ^a   Kalantan, Hatem ^a   Sultan, Tahira ^a   Al Muammar, Abdulrahman M ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Keratoconus; Mitochondrial genome; Mutation; Saudi Arabia

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; HETEROPLASMY; HUMAN; KERATOCONUS; KERATOMETRY; MALE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

KERATOCONUS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MUTATION; SAUDI ARABIA;

DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; KERATOCONUS; MITOCHONDRIA; MUTATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84897833794     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.14-13938     Document Type: Article

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