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The effect of genetic variants in SERPING1 on the risk of neovascular age-related macular degeneration.
The British journal of ophthalmology - 1 Jul 2010
Lee A Y, Kulkarni M, Fang A M, Edelstein S, Osborn M P, Brantley M A
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PURPOSE: Genetic factors influence an individual's risk for developing age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of irreversible vision loss. Previous studies investigating the potential association between all AMD subtypes and the SERPING1 gene, which encodes a key regulator of the classic complement pathway, have yielded conflicting results. The purpose of this study is to determine whether...
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