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Genome-wide association studies: getting to pathogenesis, the role of inflammation/complement in age-related macular degeneration.
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine - 11 Sept 2014
Cooke Bailey Jessica N, Pericak-Vance Margaret A, Haines Jonathan L
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Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a chronic, degenerative, and significant cause of visual impairment and blindness in the elderly. Genetic and epidemiological studies have confirmed that AMD has a strong genetic component, which has encouraged the application of increasingly sophisticated genetic techniques to uncover the important underlying genetic variants. Although various genes and pathways have...
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