Genome-Wide Association Study with Three Control Cohorts of Japanese Patients with Esotropia and Exotropia of Comitant Strabismus and Idiopathic Superior Oblique Muscle Palsy.

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Esotropia and exotropia in the entity of comitant strabismus are multifactorial diseases with both genetic and environmental backgrounds. Idiopathic superior oblique muscle palsy, as the predominant entity of non-comitant (paralytic) strabismus, also has a genetic background, as evidenced by varying degrees of muscle hypoplasia. A genome-wide association study (GWAS) was conducted of 711 Japanese patients with...

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