EPHA2 Polymorphisms in Estonian Patients with Age-Related Cataract

Ophthalmic Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 14-18

  Celojevic, Dragana ^a   Abramsson, Alexandra ^b   Seibt Palmér, Mona ^b   Tasa, Gunnar ^c   Juronen, Erkki ^c   Zetterberg, Henrik ^b,d   Zetterberg, Madeleine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cataract; EPHA2; single nucleotide polymorphisms

Indexed keywords

EPHRIN RECEPTOR A2;

AGED; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTONIAN (PEOPLE); FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENILE CATARACT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; AGING; ESTONIA; GENETICS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CATARACT; ESTONIA; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTOR, EPHA2; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84960438265     PISSN: 13816810     EISSN: 17445094     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/13816810.2014.902080     Document Type: Article

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