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A prospective study of 2 major age-related macular degeneration susceptibility alleles and interactions with modifiable risk factors.
Archives of ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) - 1 Jan 2007
Schaumberg Debra A, Hankinson Susan E, Guo Qun, Rimm Eric, Hunter David J
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OBJECTIVES: To delineate the magnitude of susceptibility to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) due to common variants in the gene for complement factor H (CFH) and the predicted gene LOC387715 and to determine whether these variants interact with modifiable risk factors. METHODS: We compared cases who developed AMD (n = 457) with 1071 age- and sex-matched control subjects in a prospective nested case-control...
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