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Environmental and genetic risk factors for retinal angiomatous proliferation.
Acta ophthalmologica - 1 Dec 2014
Caramoy Albert, Ristau Tina, Lechanteur Yara T, Ersoy Lebriz, Müller Sebastian, Gelisken Faik, Hoyng Carel B, Kirchhof Bernd, den Hollander Anneke I, Fauser Sascha
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PURPOSE: To identify genetic and environmental risk factors in patients with retinal angiomatous proliferation (RAP), a clinical subtype of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). METHODS: In this case-control study, 108 AMD cases with RAP, 258 AMD patients with choroidal neovascularization (CNV) without RAP and 443 healthy controls were evaluated. Single nucleotide polymorphisms in age-related maculopathy...
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