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Chromosome 7q31 POAG locus: ocular expression of caveolins and lack of association with POAG in a US cohort.
Molecular vision - 8 Feb 2011
Kuehn Markus H, Wang Kai, Roos Ben, Stone Edwin M, Kwon Young H, Alward Wallace L M, Mullins Robert F, Fingert John H
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PURPOSE: To determine the role of the recently discovered primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) risk factor mapped to chromosome 7q31 in glaucoma patients from Iowa and to determine the expression pattern of genes in the locus in human eyes. METHODS: A cohort of 545 POAG patients and 297 control subjects from Iowa were genotyped with a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP; rs4236601) in the chromosome 7q31 locus...
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