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Evaluation of LOXL1 polymorphisms in eyes with exfoliation glaucoma in Japanese.
Molecular vision - 21 Jul 2008
Fuse Nobuo, Miyazawa Akiko, Nakazawa Toru, Mengkegale Mingge, Otomo Takaaki, Nishida Kohji
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: To investigate the lysyl oxidase-like 1 (LOXL1) gene for single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) variations in Japanese patients with exfoliation syndrome (XFS) and exfoliation glaucoma (XFG) and to examine the phenotypes of the patients with these variations. METHODS: Fifty-six unrelated Japanese patients with XFS, including 36 patients with XFG, were studied. Genomic DNA was extracted from the leukocytes...
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