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Genetic susceptibility to age-related macular degeneration: a paradigm for dissecting complex disease traits.
Human molecular genetics - 15 Oct 2007
Swaroop Anand, Branham Kari Eh, Chen Wei, Abecasis Goncalo
Abstract excerpt
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease, which affects quality of life for millions of elderly individuals worldwide. AMD is associated with a diverse spectrum of clinical phenotypes, all of which include the death of photoreceptors in the central part of the human retina (called the macula). Tremendous progress has been made in identifying genetic susceptibility variants...
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