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Lack of association between polymorphism rs540782 and primary open angle glaucoma in Saudi patients.
Journal of negative results in biomedicine - 2 Feb 2017
Kondkar Altaf A, Edward Nikhil B, Kalantan Hatem, Al-Kharashi Abdullah S, Altuwaijri Saleh, Mohamed Gamal, Sultan Tahira, Azad Taif A, Abu-Amero Khaled K
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: To investigate whether polymorphism rs540782 on chromsome 1, in close proximity to the Zona Pellucida Glycoprotein 4 (ZP4) gene, is a risk factor for primary open angle glaucoma (POAG). METHOD: The study genotyped 92 unrelated POAG cases and 95 control subjects from Saudi Arabia using Taq-Man® assay. RESULTS: The genotype frequency distribution did not deviate significantly from the Hardy-Weinberg...
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