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Genome-wide association and admixture analysis of glaucoma in the Women's Health Initiative.
Human molecular genetics - 15 Dec 2014
Hoffmann Thomas J, Tang Hua, Thornton Timothy A, Caan Bette, Haan Mary, Millen Amy E, Thomas Fridtjof, Risch Neil
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We report a genome-wide association study (GWAS) and admixture analysis of glaucoma in 12 008 African-American and Hispanic women (age 50-79 years) from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI). Although GWAS of glaucoma have been conducted on several populations, this is the first to look at glaucoma in individuals of African-American and Hispanic race/ethnicity. Prevalent and incident glaucoma was determined by...
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