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Persons with age-related maculopathy risk genotypes and clinically normal eyes have reduced mesopic vision.
Investigative ophthalmology & visual science - 1 Feb 2011
Feigl Beatrix, Cao Dingcai, Morris Charles P, Zele Andrew J
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PURPOSE: To determine whether participants with normal visual acuity, no ophthalmoscopically signs of age-related maculopathy (ARM) in both eyes, and who are carriers of the CFH, LOC387715, and HRTA1 high-risk genotypes (gene-positive) have impaired rod- and cone-mediated mesopic visual function compared with persons who do not carry the risk genotypes (gene-negative). METHODS: Fifty-three Caucasian study...
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