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Ancestral LOXL1 variants are associated with pseudoexfoliation in Caucasian Australians but with markedly lower penetrance than in Nordic people.
Human molecular genetics - 1 Mar 2008
Hewitt Alex W, Sharma Shiwani, Burdon Kathryn P, Wang Jie Jin, Baird Paul N, Dimasi David P, Mackey David A, Mitchell Paul, Craig Jamie E
Abstract excerpt
Pseudoexfoliation syndrome is a generalized disorder of the extracellular matrix, characterized by the pathological accumulation of abnormal fibrillar material in the anterior segment of the eye predisposing to glaucomatous optic neuropathy. We investigated the role of lysyl oxidase-like 1(LOXL1) sequence variation in a Caucasian Australian population-based cohort of 2508 individuals, 86 (3.4%) of whom were...
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