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Analysis of hemopexin plasma levels in patients with age-related macular degeneration.
Molecular vision - 1 Jan 2022
Lauwen Susette, Bakker Bjorn, de Jong Eiko K, Fauser Sascha, Hoyng Carel B, Lefeber Dirk J, den Hollander Anneke I
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Purpose: A protein quantitative trait locus (pQTL) analysis recently revealed a strong association between hemopexin (HPX) levels and genetic variants at the complement factor H (CFH) locus. In this study, we aimed to determine HPX plasma levels in patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and to compare them with those in controls. We also investigated whether genetic variants at the CFH locus are...
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