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Presence of myocilin sequence variants in Japanese patients with open-angle glaucoma.
Molecular vision - 4 Mar 2008
Mengkegale MingGe, Fuse Nobuo, Miyazawa Akiko, Takahashi Kana, Seimiya Motohiko, Yasui Tomoki, Tamai Makoto, Nakazawa Toru, Nishida Kohji
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: To examine the myocilin (MYOC) gene for mutations in Japanese patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and to determine the phenotypes of the patients with the mutations. METHODS: One-hundred thirty-eight unrelated Japanese patients with POAG were studied. Genomic DNA was extracted from leukocytes of peripheral blood, and the three coding exons including the intron-exon boundaries were amplified...
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