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Genome-wide scans of myopia in Pennsylvania Amish families reveal significant linkage to 12q15, 8q21.3 and 5p15.33
Myopia is one of the most common ocular disorders in the world, yet the genetic etiology of the disease remains poorly understood. Specialized founder populations, such as the Pennsylvania Amish, provide the o...
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Open AccessExome 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...
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Genome-wide association meta-analysis highlights light-induced signaling as a driver for refractive error
Refractive errors, including myopia, are the most frequent eye disorders worldwide and an increasingly common cause of blindness. This genome-wide association meta-analysis in 160,420 participants and replicat...
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Open AccessGenome-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...
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Genome-wide analysis of multi-ancestry cohorts identifies new loci influencing intraocular pressure and susceptibility to glaucoma
Tin Aung, Christopher Hammond and colleagues report the results of a large genome-wide association study of intraocular pressure. They identify four new loci associated with this trait and show that three of t...
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Erratum: Genome-wide meta-analyses of multiancestry cohorts identify multiple new susceptibility loci for refractive error and myopia
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Genome-wide meta-analyses of multiancestry cohorts identify multiple new susceptibility loci for refractive error and myopia
Caroline Klaver and colleagues report a meta-analysis for refractive error and myopia, including 37,382 individuals from 27 European studies and 8,376 individuals from 5 Asian studies, as part of the Consortiu...
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Open AccessLarge scale international replication and meta-analysis study confirms association of the 15q14 locus with myopia. The CREAM consortium
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