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Highly penetrant alleles in age-related macular degeneration.
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine - 6 Nov 2014
den Hollander Anneke I, de Jong Eiko K
Abstract excerpt
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a complex disease caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Genome-wide association studies have identified several common genetic variants associated with AMD, which together account for 15%-65% of the heritability of AMD. Multiple hypotheses to clarify the unexplained portion of genetic variance have been proposed, such as gene-gene interactions,...
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