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Genetic risk factors and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) Factores genéticos de riesgo y degeneración macular asociada a la edad (DMAE)
2013-09-01
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Age related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness in individuals older than 65 years of age. It is a multifactorial disorder and identification of risk factors enables individuals to make lifestyle choices that may reduce the risk of disease. Collaboration between geneticists, ophthalmologists, and optometrists suggests that genetic risk factors play a more significant role in AMD than previ...
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- Literature Corpus work
- b0cd253c-2227-5097-8c23-56aaf204127f
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.optom.2013.07.002
- PMCID
- PMC3880448