Thyroid Gland Dysfunction and Vitamin D Polymorphism in Keratoconus

quantitative measurement of (Thyroid stimulating hormon (TSH), free triiodothyronine (FT3)\& Free tetraiodothyronine(FT4)) measured using ELISA . Serum 25-OH vitamin D measured using ELISA. Serum 25-OH vitamin D will be classified based on 2012 American Endocrine Society guidelines into deficient (\< 20ng/ml), insufficient ( 21 -30 ng/ml) and sufficient (\> 30 ng/ml).vitamin D receptor polymorphisms was done in 3 steps: a) DNA extraction from whole blood using Gene Jet gene DNA Purification kits . b) PCR: three Vitamin D receptor polymorphisms were tested \[Taq I (restriction enzymes according to single nucleotide polymorphism ) (rs731236), Apa I (rs7975232) and Bsm I (rs1544410)\] using polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP). Genomic DNA was amplified using certain primers