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Variations in the myocilin gene in patients with open-angle glaucoma.
Archives of ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) - 1 Sept 2002
Alward Wallace L M, Kwon Young H, Khanna Cheryl L, Johnson A Tim, Hayreh Sohan S, Zimmerman M Bridget, Narkiewicz Joanna, Andorf Jeaneen L, Moore Paula A, Fingert John H, Sheffield Val C, Stone Edwin M
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OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence and associated phenotype of myocilin (MYOC) coding sequence variations and a specific promoter polymorphism (MYOC.mt1) in patients with glaucoma and glaucoma suspects. METHODS: A consecutive, unselected series of 779 patients (652 with open-angle glaucoma and 127 glaucoma suspects) were recruited from a university medical center and clinically characterized. The coding...
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