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Analysis of ASB10 variants in open angle glaucoma.
Human molecular genetics - 15 Oct 2012
Fingert John H, Roos Ben R, Solivan-Timpe Frances, Miller Kathy A, Oetting Thomas A, Wang Kai, Kwon Young H, Scheetz Todd E, Stone Edwin M, Alward Wallace L M
Abstract excerpt
Glaucoma is a common cause of visual disability and affects ∼1.6% of individuals over 40 years of age ( 1). Non-synonymous coding sequence variations in the ankyrin repeat and SOCS box containing gene 10 (ASB10) were recently associated with 6.0% of cases of primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) in patients from Oregon and Germany. We tested a cohort of POAG patients (n= 158) and normal control subjects (n= 82),...
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