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Attitudes to predictive DNA testing for myocilin glaucoma: experience with a large Australian family.
Journal of glaucoma - 1 Aug 2004
Healey Danielle L, Craig Jamie E, Wilkinson Colleen H, Stone Edwin M, Mackey David A
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: Glaucoma is a major cause of visual impairment and blindness in developed countries. Half of those with glaucoma are unaware that they have the disease. Mutations in the myocilin (MYOC) gene are responsible for 3 to 5% of primary open angle glaucoma, thus predictive DNA testing in family members of some glaucoma pedigrees is possible. We wished to determine the attitudes of affected and unaffected family...
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