Article
Lack of association of polymorphisms in elastin with pseudoexfoliation syndrome and glaucoma.
Journal of glaucoma - 1 Sept 2010
Fan Bao Jian, Figuieredo Sena Dayse R, Pasquale Louis R, Grosskreutz Cynthia L, Rhee Douglas J, Chen Teresa C, Delbono Elizabeth A, Haines Jonathan L, Wiggs Janey L
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: To evaluate the elastin gene (ELN) as a secondary risk factor for pseudoexfoliation syndrome (PXFS) and the associated glaucoma pseudoexfoliation glaucoma (PXFG). METHODS: One hundred seventy-eight unrelated patients with PXFS, including 132 patients with PXFG, and 113 unrelated controls were recruited from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. All the patients and controls were white of European...
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