Article
Lack of association of SNP rs4236601 near CAV1 and CAV2 with POAG in a Saudi cohort.
Molecular vision - 1 Jan 2012
Abu-Amero Khaled K, Kondkar Altaf A, Mousa Ahmed, Osman Essam A, Al-Obeidan Saleh A
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: To determine the role of the recently discovered primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs4236601 near the caveolin-1 (CAV1) and CAV2 among patients and controls from Saudi Arabia. METHODS: A cohort of 220 POAG patients and 405 control subjects from Saudi Arabia were genotyped for a SNP (rs4236601;g.2891 G>A) in the chromosome 7q31 locus near CAV1 and CAV2 using a...
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