Discovery and Functional Annotation of SIX6 Variants in Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Ulmer Carnes, Megan ^a   Liu, Yangfan P ^b   Allingham, R Rand ^a,b   Whigham, Benjamin T ^b   Havens, Shane ^b   Garrett, Melanie E ^a   Qiao, Chunyan ^c,d   Katsanis, Nicholas ^b   Wiggs, Janey L ^c   Pasquale, Louis R ^c,e   Ashley Koch, Allison ^a,b   Oh, Edwin C ^b   Hauser, Michael A ^a,b   Brilliant, Murray ^f   Budenz, Donald L ^g   Chin, Hemin R ^h   Cooke Bailey, Jessica ⁱ   Fingert, John ^j   Friedman, David S ^k   Gaasterland, Douglas ^l   Gaasterland, Terry ^m   Haines, Jonathan ⁱ   Kang, Jae H ⁿ   Lee, Richard K ^o   Lichter, Paul R ^p   Liu, Yutao ^a   Loomis, Stephanie ^c   McCarty, Cathy Essentia ^q   Moroi, Sayoko E ^p   Pericak Vance, Margaret ^r   Realini, Anthony ^s   Richards, Julia E ^p   Schuman, Joel S ^t   Scott, William K ^r   Singh, Kuldev ^u   Sit, Arthur ^v   Vollrath, Douglas ^u   Weinreb, Robert N ^w   Wollstein, Gadi ^x   Yaspan, Brian L ⁱ   Zack, Don ⁿ   Zhang, Kang ^w   more..

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

ⁱ VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^k JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l Eye Doctors of Washington EDOW   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁿ JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^p University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center   (United States)

^q ESSENTIA INSTITUTE OF RURAL HEALTH   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^s West Virginia University Eye Institute   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^u STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^v MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^w UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^x UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE; HISTIDINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SIX6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER THICKNESS; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 84901594800     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004372     Document Type: Article

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