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Is normal tension glaucoma actually an unrecognized hereditary optic neuropathy? New evidence from genetic analysis
1 Dec 2002
Abstract excerpt
Normal tension glaucoma and dominant optic atrophy share many overlapping clinical features, and differentiating between these two diseases is often difficult. The gene responsible for dominant optic atrophy is the OPA1 gene located on chromosome 3. This gene encodes for a protein product that is involved in mitochondrial metabolic function. Recent genetic linkage analysis of patients with normal tension glaucoma...
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