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Role of Lysyl oxidase-like 1 gene polymorphisms in Pakistani patients with pseudoexfoliative glaucoma.
Molecular vision - 1 Jan 2012
Micheal Shazia, Khan Muhammad Imran, Akhtar Farah, Ali Mahmood, Ahmed Asifa, den Hollander Anneke I, Qamar Raheel
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) rs1048661 (p.R141L) and rs3825942 (p.G153D) in the lysyl oxidase-like 1 (LOXL1) gene have been previously reported to be associated with pseudoexfoliation glaucoma (PEXG) in various Asian and European populations, but these SNPs have not yet been studied in the Pakistani population. Therefore the aim of the present study was to investigate the association of these...
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