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Investigation of CAV1/CAV2 rs4236601 and CDKN2B-AS1 rs2157719 in primary open-angle glaucoma patients from Brazil.
Ophthalmic genetics - 1 Apr 2018
Nunes Hugo Freire, Ananina Galina, Costa Vital Paulino, Zanchin Nilson Ivo Tonin, de Vasconcellos José Paulo Cabral, de Melo Mônica Barbosa
Abstract excerpt
Large-scale genome-wide association studies have identified several susceptibility variants associated with the risk of primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), among which rs4236601 (CAV1/CAV2) at chromosome 7q31 and rs2157719 at chromosome 9p21 (CDKN2B-AS1). The purpose of this study was to investigate whether these variants contribute to the incidence of POAG in a sample of the Brazilian Southeastern population and...
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