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Genome-wide scans of myopia in Pennsylvania Amish families reveal significant linkage to 12q15, 8q21.3 and 5p15.33

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    Exome genoty** and linkage analysis identifies two novel linked regions and replicates two others for myopia in Ashkenazi Jewish families

    Myopia is one of most common eye diseases in the world and affects 1 in 4 Americans. It is a complex disease caused by both environmental and genetics effects; the genetics effects are still not well understoo...

    Claire L. Simpson, Anthony M. Musolf, Qing Li, Laura Portas in BMC Medical Genetics (2019)

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    Genome-wide association study for refractive astigmatism reveals genetic co-determination with spherical equivalent refractive error: the CREAM consortium

    To identify genetic variants associated with refractive astigmatism in the general population, meta-analyses of genome-wide association studies were performed for: White Europeans aged at least 25 years (20 co...

    Qing Li, Robert Wojciechowski, Claire L. Simpson, Pirro G. Hysi in Human Genetics (2015)

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    Erratum: Genome-wide meta-analyses of multiancestry cohorts identify multiple new susceptibility loci for refractive error and myopia

    Nat. Genet. 45, 314–318 (2013); doi:10.1038/ng.2554; published online 10 February 2013; corrected after print 9 May 2013 In the version of this article initially published, the affiliations of Daniel W.H. Ho w...

    Virginie J M Verhoeven, Pirro G Hysi, Robert Wojciechowski, Qiao Fan in Nature Genetics (2013)

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    Large scale international replication and meta-analysis study confirms association of the 15q14 locus with myopia. The CREAM consortium

    Myopia is a complex genetic disorder and a common cause of visual impairment among working age adults. Genome-wide association studies have identified susceptibility loci on chromosomes 15q14 and 15q25 in Cauc...

    Virginie J. M. Verhoeven, Pirro G. Hysi, Seang-Mei Saw, Veronique Vitart in Human Genetics (2012)