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Ethnic Considerations for Glaucoma: A Review

2018-09-20

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Glaucoma is undoubtedly a major worldwide disease and cause of blindness. The term glaucoma however encompasses a group of disorders with differing age of incidence, intraocular pressures and varying degrees of hereditability in which vision loss occurs through a characteristic mode of retinal ganglion cell death. There are also significant differences in frequencies of incidence and gene associations for this gro...

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e1ce247b-35ed-5749-8de1-7387c3d359d5
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10.20944/preprints201809.0418.v1
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