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Association of HTRA1 and ARMS2 gene variation with drusen formation in rhesus macaques.
Experimental eye research - 1 Mar 2009
Singh Krishna K, Krawczak Michael, Dawson William W, Schmidtke Joerg
Abstract excerpt
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a clinically heterogeneous disease and constitutes the major cause of visual impairment in the elderly population worldwide. Rhesus macaques also possess a macula and, like humans, develop drusen-associated, age-related macular pathologies. Susceptibility to AMD in humans and drusen formation in rhesus macaques both have been shown to be associated with variation in the...
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