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Genetic Risk of Age-related Maculopathy
1 Dec 1998
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To investigate to what extent age-related maculopathy (ARM) is genetically determined. DESIGN AND SETTING: Familial aggregation study based on probands derived from the population-based Rotterdam Study. PARTICIPANTS: First-degree relatives of 87 patients with late ARM, i.e., atrophic or neovascular macular degeneration, were compared with first-degree relatives of 135 control subjects without ARM. MAIN...
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