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Inheritance of open-angle glaucoma in the Barbados family study.
American journal of medical genetics - 15 Sept 2001
Nemesure B, He Q, Mendell N, Wu S Y, Hejtmancik J F, Hennis A, Leske M C
Abstract excerpt
The majority of genetic studies on open-angle glaucoma (OAG) have been conducted in primarily white populations, with investigations of inheritance patterns largely based on self-reported information. The Barbados Family Study of Open-Angle Glaucoma (BFSG) is the first study to investigate the transmission pattern(s) for OAG in a predominantly black population, based on standardized examinations. Each BFSG...
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