Ophthalmology
Volume 114, Issue 6 , Pages 1039-1045 , June 2007

Association between Genetic Polymorphisms of the Prostaglandin F Receptor Gene and Response to Latanoprost

Presented at: Joint Meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology, November 2006, Las Vegas, Nevada.

  • Mayumi Sakurai, MSc
  • ,
  • Tomomi Higashide, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence and reprint requests to Tomomi Higashide, MD, PhD, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science, 13-1 Takara-machi, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920-8641, Japan.
  • ,
  • Mami Takahashi, MD
  • ,
  • Kazuhisa Sugiyama, MD, PhD

Received 4 August 2006 ,Accepted 12 March 2007.

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 Manuscript no. 2006-874.

 Financial support: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research no. 17591826).

PII: S0161-6420(07)00306-5

doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2007.03.025

Ophthalmology
Volume 114, Issue 6 , Pages 1039-1045 , June 2007