Correlation of severity of fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy with triplet repeat expansion in TCF4

JAMA Ophthalmology

Volumn 133, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1386-1391

  Soliman, Ahmed Z ^a,b   Xing, Chao ^c   Radwan, Salma H ^a,d   Gong, Xin ^b   Vinod Mootha, V ^b,c  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TCF4 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL CORNEAL THICKNESS; CONGENITAL CORNEA DYSTROPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SEVERITY ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; KERATOPLASTY; KRACHMER GRADE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; GENETICS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLELES; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FUCHS' ENDOTHELIAL DYSTROPHY; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 84964998596     PISSN: 21686165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2015.3430     Document Type: Article

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