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Genetic risk of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment: a familial aggregation study.
Archives of ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) - 1 Sept 2005
Go Sioe Lie, Hoyng Carel B, Klaver Caroline C W
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the magnitude of the genetic risk of nonsyndromic rhegmatogenous retinal detachments (RRDs) in a familial aggregation study. DESIGN: Two hundred three consecutive patients with RRD and 461 controls without RRD were ascertained at the Department of Ophthalmology of the University Medical Centre Nijmegen in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Data on family composition, history of RRD, and presence...
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