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Myocilin variants in Indian patients with open-angle glaucoma.
Archives of ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) - 1 Jun 2007
Bhattacharjee Ashima, Acharya Moulinath, Mukhopadhyay Arijit, Mookherjee Suddhasil, Banerjee Deblina, Bandopadhyay Arun K, Thakur Sanjay K D, Sen Abhijit, Ray Kunal
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OBJECTIVE: To identify and evaluate MYOC variant alleles among patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and age-matched control subjects in an Indian population. METHODS: Three hundred fifteen patients with POAG and 100 unrelated control subjects from the same ethnic background were enrolled in the study. The coding sequence of MYOC was amplified by polymerase chain reaction using genomic DNA, followed by...
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