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Bringing the age-related macular degeneration high-risk allele age-related maculopathy susceptibility 2 into focus with stem cell technology.
Stem cell research & therapy - 6 Jun 2017
Sun Shuo, Li ZhiQing, Glencer Patrick, Cai BinCui, Zhang XiaoMin, Yang Jin, Li XiaoRong
Abstract excerpt
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a major cause of blindness in older adults in developed countries. It is a multifactorial disease triggered by both environmental and genetic factors. High-temperature requirement A serine peptidase 1 (HTRA1) and age-related maculopathy susceptibility 2 (ARMS2) are two genes that are strongly associated with AMD. Because ARMS2 is an evolutionarily recent primate-specific...
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