Article
Case-control association between CCT-associated variants and keratoconus in a Saudi Arabian population.
Journal of negative results in biomedicine - 4 Jun 2015
Abu-Amero Khaled K, Helwa Inas, Al-Muammar Abdulrahman, Strickland Shelby, Hauser Michael A, Allingham R Rand, Liu Yutao
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Keratoconus (KC) is the most common primary ectatic disease of the cornea and a major indication for corneal transplant. To date, limited KC-associated-risk loci have been identified. Association has recently been suggested between KC and 8 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the genomic regions of FNDC3B, COL4A3, MPDZ-NF1B, RXRA-COL5A1, LCN12-PTGDS, FOXO1, and BANP-ZNF469. These SNPs are...
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